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We test for an effect of Arizona’s 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on the proportion of the state population characterized as foreign-born, as non-citizen, and as non-citizen Hispanic. We use the synthetic control method to select a group of states against which the population trends of...
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We test for an effect of Arizona's 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on the proportion of the state's population characterized as noncitizen Hispanic. We use the synthetic control method to select a group of states against which Arizona's population trends can be compared. We document a...
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opportunities as a way to deter further illegal immigration and as such is likely to increase poverty among an already marginalized …
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This essay examines the dynamics underlying contemporary South-North population displacements and the common gaps between public perceptions of the phenomenon and actual realities. I analyze these dynamics and gaps by focusing on the clash between opposing forces at various stages of the...
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I study the impact of immigration and ethnic diversity on political outcomes in immigrant receiving countries, focusing … on the case of election outcomes and immigration in Danish municipalities 1981-2001. A rich set of control variables … housing stock data addresses issues of endogenous location choice of immigrants. Immigration-driven increases in ethnic …
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the Economics of Religion and the Economics of Immigration, and distinguishes between religiosity per se and an immigrant …
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in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the resulting …
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We examine how changes to regulations and the economic conditions have influenced gross immigration to Norway from, in … principle, all countries in the world during 1969– 2010. In line with existing studies of immigration we find that economic … factors were important for immigration to Norway. Income differences between Norway and other countries have the expected …
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immigration in the United States (using IPUMS Data), which the related literature has clearly neglected thus far despite long …
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This study reviews and evaluates the motives and incentives behind immigrants’ religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to identify indicators for the type of incentive – whether...
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