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Immigration, Ethnic Diversity and Political Outcomes: Evidence from Denmark
Harmon, Nikolaj A. - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2012
I study the impact of immigration and ethnic diversity on political outcomes in immigrant receiving countries, focusing on the case of election outcomes and immigration in Danish municipalities 1981-2001. A rich set of control variables isolates ethnic diversity effects from that of other...
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Costs and Benefits of Labour Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries Country Study: Italy
Marchetti, Sabrina; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Venturini, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
first is mainly composed by women with a temporary migration plan while the second was initially composed by women but … rapidly the family reunification was obtained and the migration plan became more permanent. By using the Italian Labour Force …
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Costs and Benefits of Labour Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries: Country Study on Germany
Biavaschi, Costanza; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
from Ukraine but EaP migrants are a relatively small share of total migrants. EaP migrants experience worse labor market …
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HUMAN CAPITAL TRAPS? ENCLAVE EFFECTS USING LINKED EMPLOYER-HOUSEHOLD DATA
Sousa, Liliana D. - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2013
This study uses linked employer-household data to measure the impact of immigrant social networks, as identified via neighborhood and workplace affiliation, on immigrant earnings. Though ethnic enclaves can provide economic opportunities through job creation and job matching, they can also...
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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...
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The Mobility Challenge for Growth and Integration in Europe
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
value of labor mobility for economic prosperity and its determinants. Labor migration and not welfare migration dominates …Open and flexible labor markets foster growth, development and integration in Europe. The single European labor market … the future a much higher level of circular and permanent migration. …
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Crime and immigration
Bell, Brian - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) May, pp. 1-10
, the evidence points to substantial differences in the impact on property crime, depending on the labor market …
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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Do more risk loving migrants opt for self-employment? This is a question especially relevant for policymakers designing selective immigration policies in countries of destination. In order to provide a rigorous answer to it, we use a novel vignette-adjusted measure of risk preferences in the...
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Migration and work: the cohesive role of vocational training policies
Ragazzi, Elena; Sella, Lisa - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2013
Migration and work are truly connected notions, both because one major cause of migration is the search of better …
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Does migration threaten the sustainability of European welfare states?
Huber, Peter; Oberdabernig, Doris A. - WWWforEurope - 2013
observable factors. The reasons for this are primarily lower tax payments of migrant households. Selective migration and sound … integration policies and as well as policies avoiding marginalization of migrants in informal labor markets are therefore the most … eective means to avoid scal burdens of migration. …
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