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I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous … low-skilled workers lose from unskilled immigration even if the indigenous lowskilled workers do not finance …
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Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic enclaves within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a way...
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arrivals, can account for only a small portion of it. The upturn appears to have been caused in part by a shift in immigration …
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half a century or so, basic quantities ofsome basic factors have remained disagreed. Chinese population is one of them … Chinese official censuses have beensystematically thrown away almost completely.As a result, the picture of Chinese population …’s population size despite the fact that population is commonlyregarded as one of the key economic factors in an economy. The …
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The Internet, like other new technologies, will undoubtedly affect civil society and the workings of activists, citizens´ groups, and the political process as a whole. But how radical will this impact be, and precisely how will the Internet change the way citizens´ groups act?
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This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme right …
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This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme …
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This paper examines the effect of immigration on the level of income redistribution via majority voting on the income …
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1998 as well as the inter-temporal fiscal impact of immigration to Austria. Immigrants affect inter-temporal fiscal balance … in essentially two ways. Firstly, they have a demographic effect in enlarging the population (and thus the tax base) and …. The overall fiscal effect of immigration is found positive, under the assumption that the age and fiscal characteristics …
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Using detailed micro data on earnings and employment, I analyze the effects of immigration on the wage distribution of … native male workers in Austria. I find that immigration has heterogeneous effects on wages, differing by type of work as well … effects occur at most percentiles. The estimated effects of immigration are relatively small in size and not significant for …
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