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Gender and Ethnicity-Married immigrants in Britain
Dustmann, Christian; Fabbri, Francesca - 2005
differences in observable characteristics. We analyse employment assimilation for all groups over the migration cycle. Our main … part of this differential can be explained by observable characteristics. Over the migration cycle, the data suggests that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532704
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The Impact of Immigration on the UK Labour Market
Dustmann, Christian; Fabbri, Francesca; Preston, Ian - 2005
This paper provides an empirical investigation of the way immigration affects labour market outcomes of native born workers in the UK, set beside a theoretical discussion of the underlying economic mechanisms. We discuss the problems that may arise in empirical estimations, and suggest ways to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532712
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Is Immigration Good or Bad for the Economy? Analysis of Attitudinal Responses
Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian - 2004
In this paper we study attitudinal responses of host country residents towards further immigration that are triggered by economic considerations. We develop an economic model motivating the empirical work that takes a broader view on these issues than previous papers. We provide empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532868
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Lowering Welfare Benefits: Intended and Unintended Consequences for Migrants and their Families
Andersen, Lars Højsgaard; Dustmann, Christian; … - 2019
Denmark's Start Aid welfare reform reduced benefits to refugee immigrants by around 50 percent for those granted residency after the reform date. The reform led to a sharp short run increase in labor earnings and employment, but it also induced a strong female labor force withdrawal, and a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532885
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Refugee Benefit Cuts
Dustmann, Christian; Landerso, Rasmus; Andersen, Lars … - 2023
This paper analyzes the effects of Denmark's Start Aid welfare reform that targets refugees. Implemented in 2002, it enables us to study not only the reform's immediate effects, but also its longer-term consequences, and its repeal a decade later. The reform-induced large transfer cuts led to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532908
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Migration and Education
Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht - 2011
Sjaastad (1962) viewed migration in the same way as education: as an investment in the human agent. Migration and … at many stages of an individual's migration. Differential returns to skills in origin- and destination country are a main … driver of migration. The economic success of the immigrant in the destination country is to a large extent determined by her …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533045
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The Labour Market Impact of Immigration
Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; Frattini, Tommaso - 2008
In the first part of this paper, we present a stylised model of the labour market impact of immigration. We then discuss mechanisms through which an economy can adjust to immigration: changes in factor prices, output mix and production technology. In the second part, we explain the problems of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533050
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Assessing the Fiscal Costs and Benefits of A8 Migration to the UK
Dustmann, Christian; Frattini, Tommaso; Halls, Caroline - 2009
This paper assesses the fiscal consequences of migration to the UK from the Central and Eastern European countries that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533059
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Understanding attitudes to immigration: The migration and minority module of the first European Social Survey
Card, David; Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian - 2005
Immigration control is an issue that figures prominently in public policy discussions and election campaigns throughout Europe. Although immigration may have positive effects on economic efficiency and growth in the receiving economy, it is often the negative aspects -or perceived negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533081
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Refugee Benefit Cuts
Dustmann, Christian; Landersø, Rasmus; Andersen, Lars … - 2023
This paper analyzes the effects of Denmark's Start Aid welfare reform that targets refugees. Implemented in 2002, it enables us to study not only the reform's immediate effects, but also its longer-term consequences, and its repeal a decade later. The reform-induced large transfer cuts led to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290296