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Local-level immigration and life satisfaction : the EU enlargement experience in England and Wales
Ivlevs, Artjoms; Veliziotis, Michail - 2015
The 2004 European Union enlargement resulted in an unprecedented wave of 1.5 million workers relocating from Eastern Europe to the UK. We study how this migrant inflow affected life satisfaction of native residents in England and Wales. Combining the British Household Panel Survey with the Local...
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Local-Level Immigration and Life Satisfaction : The EU Enlargement Experience in England and Wales
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2015
The 2004 European Union enlargement resulted in an unprecedented wave of 1.5 million workers relocating from Eastern Europe to the UK. We study how this migrant inflow affected life satisfaction of native residents in England and Wales. Combining the British Household Panel Survey with the Local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011148
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Is immigration good for Europe? : long-run evidence using comprehensive well-being
O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2024
The immigrant (foreign-born) population increased by 32 million in total across 37 European countries from 1990 to 2019. Much of this movement was from east to west. Indeed, both the total and foreign-born populations declined in the former Eastern Bloc over this period. Such demographic shifts...
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The Effects of International Migration on the Well-Being of Native Populations in Europe
Betz, William - 2013
little is understood about how migrants affect the happiness, or subjective well-being, of natives.This paper uses the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082143
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The effects of international migration on the well-being of native populations in Europe
Betz, William; Simpson, Nicole B. - 2013
little is understood about how migrants affect the happiness, or subjective well-being, of natives. This paper uses the … migration ; happiness ; life satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740085
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Potential migration and subjective well-being in Europe
Lovo, Stefania - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-18
By examining the preferences over migration destinations of those revealing a desire to permanently leave their country, this paper provides new evidence on the relevance of subjective measures for cross country comparisons. While hard statistics such as GDP per capita and unemployment rates are...
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The effect of immigration on natives' well-being in the European Union
O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2019 - Version: May 24, 2019
Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Europe today, yet little is known about the overall effect of its multiple impacts. The analysis suggests natives need not worry. Increasing immigrant population shares have no statistically significant effects on natives' well-being in 28...
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Does the unemployment rate moderate the well-being disadvantage of the unemployed? : within-region estimates from the European Social Survey
Hajdu, Gábor; Hajdu, Tamás - 2020
regarding the happiness scores. Our results do not support the “social norm of unemployment” hypothesis that states that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293991
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Different versions of the Easterlin Paradox : new evidence for European countries
Kaiser, Caspar F.; Vendrik, Maarten C. - 2018
Richer people are happier than poorer people, but when a country becomes richer over time, its people do not become happier. This seemingly contradictory pair of findings of Richard Easterlin has be-come famous as the Easterlin Paradox. However, it was met with counterevidence. To shed more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951423
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Explaining happiness trends in Europe
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023
In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to … the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness … impression that economic growth, social capital, and / or quality of the environment are driving happiness trends, but in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013502264