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Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...
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) great wave of (im)migration to the United States and the historiography it generated and, on this basis, unsupported claims … character of contemporary (im)migrants' lives. …
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This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic components of ethnicity – country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion – among persons admitted to legal permanent residence in the United States in 2003 in the...
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Der Migrant Policy Index (MIPEX) versucht, anhand von 140 Indikatoren zu zeigen, wie westliche Gesellschaften mit ihren Zuwanderern umgehen und wie gut die Zuwanderer in die Gesellschaft integriert sind. Der MIPEX wird alle zwei Jahre erstellt und bildet die Entwicklung der Integrationspolitik...
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the demographic change, this paper explores the incentives of heterogeneous migrants to acquire host country specific … cultural skills to improve their labor market outcomes. The theoretical results predict that the migrants` ambition in … achieving such skills is increased if the scope of their respective cultural group is small, social permeability of migrants in …
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to date in understanding the impact of high skilled immigration from the perspective of the firm and the open areas that … call for more research. Since much of the U.S. immigration process for skilled workers rests in the hands of employer firms …
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We examine the empirical relationship between immigration and crime across Italian provinces during the period 1990 … immigration toward destination countries other than Italy to identify the causal impact of exogenous changes in Italy's immigrant … population. According to these estimates, immigration increases only the incidence of robberies, while leaving unaff ected all …
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This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. We merge information on individual characteristics from the … longitudinal component of the data to analyze how immigration affects the health of both immigrants and natives over time …. Our results suggest that immigration reduces residents' likelihood to report negative health outcomes by improving their …
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Poland is a country being exposed to emigration and immigration flows relatively recently. That, among others, results … shows moderate positive impact of immigration fitting demand mostly in agriculture, construction and household services. We … analyse an impact of immigration on the domestic labour market in Poland. The immigrants fill gaps existing due to relatively …
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We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate … the effect of immigration on natives' attitudes towards immigration. We apply an instrumental variable approach to take … anti-immigration votes, while the presence of culturally similar immigrants does not affect natives' voting behavior at all …
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