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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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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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A sustainable EU Immigration Policy aims to contribute to a vibrant European society through more effectively and … selectively managed immigration from outside the EU, more attention to integration of immigrants, more rooting out of … have settled. Immigration from outside the EU is often opposed, mainly because of sluggish integration combined with …
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, only important in selecting migrants with high employment probabilities and migration policy variables remain unimportant …
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We exploit the increase in immigration flows into western European countries that took place in the 2000s to assess … whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality among European natives. Using data from the … estimations that deal with the endogenous sorting of immigration by region and with the sampling error in survey based measures of …
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This paper first presents a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide (and distinguishing … findings, and suggest directions for future research. -- immigration ; Europe ; integration ; institutions …
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A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour markets and investigates the employment effects of Active Labour Market Pro-grammes (ALMPs) on this subgroup. Using a meta-analysis, we condense 93 estimates from 33 empir-ical...
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In this paper, we provide a quantitative answer to the question what types of active labour market programmes (ALMPs) work for immigrants. From the existing literature, we identify 24 research papers estimating 79 short-run treatment effects of ALMPs on immigrants. We perform a meta-analysis of...
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Most EaP migrants in Spain come from Ukraine, followed by, to a much lesser extent, Moldavia, Armenia, and Georgia …. Relative to other migrants, they are those who most recently arrived to Spain. Using data from Spanish Labor Force Survey (LFS … migrants is similar to that of the natives. This is because although they face an employment penalty upon arrival, they catch …
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A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group in European labour markets and investigates the employment effects of Active Labour Market Programmes (ALMPs) on this subgroup. So far, however, there is no systematic review establishing which ALMPs...
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