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We study the labor market impact of opening borders to low wage countries. The analysis exploits time and regional variation provided by the 2004 EU enlargement in combination with transport links to Sweden from the new member states. The results suggest an adverse impact on earnings of present...
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benefit from a substantive immigration policy that imposes selection criteria that are more in line with economic needs, the … substantial immigration into the European Union follows largely non-economic motives. This paper discusses the economic rationale … of a selective immigration policy and provides empirical evidence about the adverse effects of current selection …
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benefit from a substantive immigration policy that imposes selection criteria that are more in line with economic needs, the … substantial immigration into the European Union follows largely non-economic motives. This paper discusses the economic rationale … of a selective immigration policy and provides empirical evidence about the adverse effects of current selection …
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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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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 immigrants'...
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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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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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-being, which captures all of the important factors affected by immigration. …
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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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