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This paper analyzes the effects of immigration on the education system of the receiving country from a political … key moments of Spain's economy and education system in year 2008, the end of a large episode of immigration. By means of … simulations we evaluate the effects of immigration on the size and quality of Spain's public education. Our main findings are as …
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This paper reviews the recent literature on the effects of immigration on the public education of the host country … empirical studies, suggests the following conclusions. First, immigration has triggered native flight toward private schools in …-scale immigration is that it appears to undermine the political support for public education, resulting in a deterioration in the …
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attainment of younger Moroccan cohorts, which is an important determinant of the outcomes we have analyzed. -- Immigration …
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This paper compares the economic and cultural gaps of the largest foreign-born ethnic minorities in Spain: Latinos, Eastern Europeans, Moroccans and individuals from Other Muslim countries. We focus on several outcomes: the gender education gap, early marriage, inter-ethnic marriage, fertility,...
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This paper empirically analyzes the effects of immigration on the schooling decisions of natives. We employ household …-level data for Spain for years 2000-2012, a period characterized by a large immigration wave and a severe recession. Our … estimates reveal that Spanish households responded to immigration by increasing their educational expenditures. This result was …
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This paper investigates the effects of Spain's large recent immigration wave on the labor supply of highly skilled … native women. We hypothesize that female immigration led to an increase in the supply of affordable household services, such … family responsibilities. Our evidence indicates that over the last decade immigration led to an important expansion in the …
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We estimate empirically the effect of immigration on house prices and residential construction activity in Spain over … the period 1998-2008. This decade is characterized by both a spectacular housing market boom and a stunning immigration … wave. We exploit the variation in immigration across Spanish provinces and construct an instrument based on the historical …
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We estimate empirically the effect of immigration on house prices and residential construction activity in Spain over … the period 1998-2008. This decade is characterized by both a spectacular housing market boom and a stunning immigration … wave. We exploit the variation in immigration across Spanish provinces and construct an instrument based on the historical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879367
This paper re-examines the role of labor-market competition as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration. We claim … are relatively more pro-immigration. This is true for both our new measures of exposure. Second, we show that the … positive effect of education on pro-immigration attitudes is greatly reduced when we control for the degree of communication …
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Two large but separate bodies of literature analyze the economic effects of international trade and immigration. Given … potentially serious omitted-variables bias, questioning the validity of existing estimates of the effects of trade and immigration … on income. This paper provides estimates of the effects of trade and immigration on income in a unified framework. We …
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