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compatible with a causal interpretation from immigration to wages and rents of natives. Separating the effects of immigrants on … evaluate the impacts of alternative immigration scenarios on U.S. wages and rents. …In this paper we document a strong positive correlation of immigration flows with changes in average wages and average …
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This study provides evidence of the causal impact of immigration on German house prices, flat prices, and flat rents …-term effect on German flat prices and rents. House prices are not significantly affected. We estimate that an increase in … rents of about 1%. The increase in flat prices is more than twice as high as this at the lower end of the market, whereas …
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Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers … countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and only modest effects on wage differentials between more and less … educated immigrant and native workers. Native workers’ wages have been insulated by differences in skills, adjustments in local …
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diversity of 0.1 would increase rents by over 12 percent after controlling for relevant explanatory variables and city and time … rents. These results suggest an economic impact that is an order of magnitude bigger than that found in labor markets … diversity on the local housing market mirrors the fact that inhabitants are willing to pay higher rents in cities with a high …
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Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … controls the information related to the immigration stock it could delay the mass entry of immigrants, maintaining the required …
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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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Germany has about the same proportion of foreigners in its population as the United States, it is an immigration … country. In a way, Germany has let immigration happen, but it did not really have an explicit immigration policy in the past …. Now it has to make up its mind on its immigration policy in the future. The paper looks at the experience with immigration …
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Recent European Legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … immigration quotas. On the other hand, there is an increase of regularization, i.e., European policies are becoming less tight …. Our aim here is to study these counterbalanced and opposite policies in European immigration legislation in a unified …
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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/10014532878
In the recent past, in Italy, immigration has been at the centre of academic and policy debates. Nonetheless, the still … the phenomenon. In order to guide effective policy intervention, we offer an exhaustive view of immigration in Italy. We …
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