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Hostility towards minorities may sometimes have economic rather than racial motives. Labour market fears, or concerns about the welfare system, are often believed to manifest themselves in hostile attitudes towards population groups that are considered to be competitors for these resources. The...
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systematic differences between natives and migrants in terms of distance to the frontier. GSOEP-Data of the year 2000 is used for … estimation. The empirical results clearly support the frontier assumption, but - surprisingly - find natives and immigrants at … and immigrants relative to the frontier, the wage discrimination hypothesis is rejected. Actually, human capital …
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In Germany, immigrant unemployment is not only higher than native unemployment; italso reacts more to changes in the … situation on the labor market. Decomposing the gapbetween native and immigrant unemployment into a baseline and a labor …-marketsituation component, I find that the unemployment rate of immigrants would lie at 5.6 percentagepoints for zero native unemployment (the …
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and the determinants of these sentiments is presented. Natives in countries that receive predominantly refugee migrants …. Natives in countries with mostly economic migrants are relatively more concerned about loosing jobs to immigrants. However …
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This paper explores the issue of discrimination against Asian migrants in the Australian labour market using a unique … significant ?unexplained differences? for males that may be ascribed to ?discrimination? against Asian migrants. However, the … being unemployed for Asian and non-Asian migrants controlling for various characteristics including age, education, and …
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of the unemployment experience are taken into account: i) displacement risk, measured by the probability of moving from … employment into unemployment; ii) job-search effectiveness measured by the probability of moving from unemployment into … the effect is positive in the most recent periods. For native transition from employment to unemployment a complementary …
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Most immigrant groups experience higher rates of unemployment than the host countries native population, but it is as … native born and immigrant groups, in terms of their impact on the duration of unemployment. Our main finding is that … unemployment cannot generally be explained by differences in the choice of main job search method or in observable characteristics …
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How does previous exposure to massive immigrant inflows affect concerns about current immigration and the integration of refugees? To answer this question, we investigate attitudes toward newcomers among natives and previous immigrants. In areas that in the 1990s received higher inflows of...
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This paper provides a simple explanation for why some minority groups are economically successful, despite being subject to government-mandated discriminatory policies. We study an economy with private and public sectors in which workers invest in imperfectly observable skills that are important...
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This paper demonstrates the effects of ethnic and religious diversity on the quality of public spaces. Its identification strategy relies on the exogeneity of public housing allocations in France, and thereby eliminates the bias from endogenous sorting. The paper uses micro evidence of social...
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