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employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment and leadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a differencein-differences non … employment to entrepreneurship are positive, statistically significant and financially substantial. Even more, the results are … salaried jobs to entrepreneurship and lower losses on the reverse switch. …
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Previous study by Card and Lewis (2005) has found (puzzling) that inflows of Mexican immigrants into new metropolitan areas have had no effect on the relative wages of very low-skill (high school dropouts). Rather, Mexican workers do affect relative wages for high school graduates. Whereas Card...
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This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme right …
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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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of immigrants. We use longitudinal data on immigration to Sweden 1970-1990 to examine the extent and pattern of immigrant … after arrival; within five years, more than a quarter of the people studied emigrated. As expected, economic migrants are …
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I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … low-skilled workers lose from unskilled immigration even if the indigenous lowskilled workers do not finance …
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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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Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to the population characteristics of the neighborhoods that immigrants grow up in. We address this issue using a governmental refugee placement policy which provides exogenous...
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This paper provides new evidence on the effect of immigration on election outcomes. Our analysis makes use of data on … reputation in immigration politics. In particular, our fixed-effects estimates indicate a positive effect for xenophobic, extreme … right-wing parties and an adverse effect for the Green party that actively campaigned for liberal immigration policies and …
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