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Immigration and innovation in European regions

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009720768

Immigration and innovation in European regions

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011

size, skills, and diversity of immigration on the innovativeness of host regions. For this purpose we construct a panel of … data on 170 regions in Europe (NUTS 2 level) for the periods 1991-1995 and 2001-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by …'s restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a function of regional …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009296379

Ethnic identity and work

Constant, Amelie - 2014

Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418958

Immigrants' "ability" and welfare as a function of cultural diversity : effect of cultural capital at individual and local level

Tubadji, Annie; Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter - 2014

This paper presents an operationalization of a mixed Bourdieu–Mincer-type model that seeks to find evidence for individual and local cultural capital effects on human capital 'ability'. We aim to compare these effects for native workers and immigrants (as well as between immigrants themselves)...

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Ethnic identity and immigrant homeownership

Constant, Amelie; Roberts, Rowan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007

Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630741

Interacting product and labor market regulation and the impact of immigration on native wages

Prantl, Susanne; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2014

Does interacting product and labor market regulation alter the impact of immigration on wages of competing native … reunification and allowing for endogenous immigration, we compare native wage reactions across different segments of the West German … labor market: one segment without product and labor market regulation, to which standard immigration models best apply, one …

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A Meta-Analytic Assessment of the Effect of Immigration on Wages

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2004

-economic phenomenon for many countries. Since the early 1980s, many studies have been undertaken of the impact of immigration on host … labour markets. Borjas (2003) noted that the estimated effect of immigration on the wage of native workers varies widely from … immigration on wages of native groups with similar skills appears rather robust. …

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Do migrants take the jobs of native workers? : migrants rarely take native workers' jobs, and they boost employment effects in the long term

Constant, Amelie - 2014

Neither public opinion nor evidence-based research supports the claim of some politicians and the media that immigrants take the jobs of native-born workers. Public opinion polls in six migrant-destination countries after the 2008-2009 recession show that most people believe that immigrants fill...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413670

A meta-analytic assessment of the effect of immigration on wages

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2004

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002499862

A meta-analytic assessment of the effect of immigration on wages

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2004

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002503663