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Naturalization and citizenship : who benefits? : liberalizing access to citizenship has labor market benefits for immigrants and can improve their assimilation

Gathmann, Christina - 2015

Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that many immigrants fail to integrate economically. Research shows that the option to naturalize has considerable economic benefits for eligible immigrants, even in countries with a tradition of restrictive policies. First-generation...

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A "healthy immigrant effect" or a "sick immigrant effect"? : selection and policies matter

Constant, Amelie; García-Muñoz, Teresa M.; Neuman, … - 2015

An extensive body of research related to immigrants in a variety of countries has documented a "healthy immigrant effect" (HIE). When immigrants arrive in the host country they are healthier than comparable native populations, but their health status may deteriorate with additional years in the...

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The impact of welfare benefits on natives' and immigrants' attitudes towards immigration : background paper for "migration in an ageing Europe: what are the challenges?"

Huber, Peter; Oberdabernig, Doris A. - 2015

We investigate whether the dependence of immigrants on welfare benefits leads to opposition to further immigration by … natives lead to less favourable attitudes of natives towards immigration. Interestingly, we do not find similar stylised facts … for immigrants' attitudes towards immigration. …

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Structural data on immigration or immigration perceptions? : what accounts for the electoral success of the radical right in Europe?

Stockemer, Daniel - In: Journal of common market studies : JCMS 54 (2016) 4, pp. 999-1016

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Drawbridges down : altruism and immigration preferences

Hansen, Ole-Petter Moe; Legge, Stefan - 2016

preferences over immigration. Using data from the European Social Survey from 2014 and 2015, our results document that individual … norms and values strongly shape preferences over immigration, even when controlling for expected costs and benefits from … immigration. In particular, we find that altruistic attitudes significantly raise the support for all types of immigration while …

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Local-level immigration and life satisfaction : the EU enlargement experience in England and Wales

Ivlevs, Artjoms; Veliziotis, Michail - 2015

Europe to the UK. We study how this migrant inflow affected life satisfaction of native residents in England and Wales … Scheme, we find that higher local level immigration increased life satisfaction of young people and decreased life … level immigration increased natives' satisfaction with their dwelling, partner and social life …

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Micro and macro determinants of health : older immigrants in Europe

Constant, Amelie; García-Muñoz, Teresa M.; Neuman, … - 2014

We study the health determinants of immigrant men and women over the age of fifty, in Europe, and compare them to natives. We utilize the unique Survey of Health Aging and Retirement (SHARE) and augmented it with macroeconomic information on the 22 home countries and 16 host countries. Using...

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