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This paper addresses the question: Why and where do immigrants cluster? We examine the relative importance and interaction of two alternative explanations of immigrant clustering: (1) network externalities and (2) herd behavior. We advance the theory by presenting a framework encompassing both...
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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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lower rates of involvement in criminal activity than natives. The earliest studies of immigration and crime conducted at the …
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In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is … balance against the economic explanation, which predicts more rather than less income redistribution in the United States … Switzerland may help to explain the difference in the amount of U.S. and EU income redistribution. …
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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 … policy toward high-skill workers matched with jobs, an increase in the earnings of immigrants from Mexico, and a decline in …
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in the US. We challenge the long-held belief that BN primarily affects high income White teenagers, using a unique data …; as are girls from low income families compared to middle and high income families. We use another data set to show that … who is diagnosed with an eating disorder is in accord with popular beliefs, suggesting that African American and low-income …
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. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …
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Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that...
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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 …. The overall fiscal effect of immigration is found positive, under the assumption that the age and fiscal characteristics … payments during working age. However, immigration is not likely to achieve inter-temporal fiscal balance, even if immigration …
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