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An introduction to the economics of immigration in OECD countries

Edo, Anthony; Ragot, Lionel; Rapoport, Hillel; … - 2020

effects of immigration in those nations. Four broad topics are addressed: labor market issues, fiscal questions, the political … economy of immigration, and productivity/international trade. Extreme concerns about deleterious labour market and fiscal …

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Immigrants and welfare programmes : exploring the interactions between immigrant characteristics, immigrant welfare dependence and welfare policy

Barrett, Alan (contributor); McCarthy, Yvonne (contributor) - 2008

The primary purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the papers within the economics literature that have examined the questions of immigrant welfare use and the responsiveness of immigrants to the incentives created by welfare systems. While our focus is largely on papers looking at the...

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Immigrant Welfare Receipt Across Europe

Barrett, Alan - 2011

The issue of welfare receipt by immigrants is highly controversial across Europe. In this paper, we assess whether immigrants are more likely to receive welfare payments relative to natives across a range of European countries. Using the European Union Survey on Income and Living Conditions for...

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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy : Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data

Docquier, Frédéric - 2011

capital with two dimensions of immigration policy: restrictiveness, and selectivity. The model predicts that the relationship … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The … effect of education is more likely to be positive when the immigration policy is more restrictive and less skill …

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Immigrants and Welfare Programmes : Exploring the Interactions between Immigrant Characteristics, Immigrant Welfare Dependence and Welfare Policy

Barrett, Alan; McCarthy, Yvonne - 2021

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The Immigrant Earnings Disadvantage Across the Earnings and Skills Distributions : The Case of Immigrants from the EU's New Member States in Ireland

Barrett, Alan; McGuinness, Seamus; O'Brien, Martin - 2021

As the movement of population from the New Member States (NMS) of the EU to the older members is a relatively new flow, it is important to build up our knowledge of who is moving within Europe and how they are performing in their destinations. In this paper, we analyse the earnings of immigrants...

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Immigrants and welfare programmes : exploring the interactions between immigrant characteristics, immigrant welfare dependence and welfare policy

Barrett, Alan (contributor); McCarthy, Yvonne (contributor) - 2008

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Immigrants and welfare programmes : exploring the interactions between immigrant characteristics, immigrant welfare dependence, and welfare policy

Barrett, Alan; McCarthy, Yvonne - In: Oxford review of economic policy 24 (2008) 3, pp. 542-559

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Tradable immigration quotas

Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús - 2011

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Tradable immigration quotas

Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; Rapoport, Hillel - 2011

immigration due to its apparently unbearable social and political costs. However these costs are never measured and made … comparable across countries. In this paper we first discuss theoretically how tradable immigration quotas (TIQs) can reveal … countries and other immigration targets. Both applications are seen as possible precursors to a full implementation of a TIQs …

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