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We analyze whether second generation immigrants have different political preferences relative to observationally identical host country's citizens. Using data on individual voting behavior in 22 European countries between 2001 and 2017 we characterize each vote on a left-right scale using...
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We analyze whether second-generation immigrants have different political preferences relative to children of citizens. Using data on individual voting behavior in 22 European countries between 2001 and 2017, we characterize each vote on a left-right scale based on the ideological and policy...
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explain why economic analyses commonly find only modest wage and employment consequences of immigration for less educated … educated foreign and native-born workers specialize in performing different tasks, immigration will cause natives to reallocate … tasks. Immigration induces natives to specialize accordingly. Simulations show that this increased specialization might …
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In this paper we analyze the response of career, employment and wage of native Europeans to immigration. We then ask … flexible labor markets in a country are a key factor to have employment upgrading in response to immigration. … labor market. We find no evidence of an increased likelihood of non-employment or geographical mobility. We find that more …
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European countries exhibit significant differences in employment rates of adult males. Differences in labor … migrants to isolate the effect of culturally transmitted labor-leisure preferences on individual employment rates. If migrants … about 24per cent of the top-bottom variation in employment rates across European countries. …
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effect of the inflows of immigrants on their career, employment and wages. We use the 1991 distribution of immigrants by …
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increases or stays the same in response to immigration. We find no evidence of an increased likelihood to leave employment or to … the period 1995-2001, in order to identify the effect of inflows of immigrants on their career, employment, location and … market. They are also more likely to start a self-employment activity. As a consequence of this upward mobility their income …
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In this study we analyze whether the gender composition of siblings within a family affects the choice of College Major. The question is whether a family environment that is more gender-homogeneous encourages academic choices that are less gender stereotyped. We use the last name and the exact...
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