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This paper analyzes what the author views as the current top ten myths and fallacies regarding immigration and immigration policy in the United States.
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continuum of tasks in each sector and we augment it to include immigrants with heterogeneous productivity in tasks. We use this … pushed natives toward more communication-intensive tasks while it has pushed immigrants away from them. …
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. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The … is associated with a higher payoff to schooling among immigrants in the US labor market. This higher payoff is associated … migration among those from countries with better quality school. In other words, it is the impact of origin country school …
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In light of the importance of immigrants' labour market integration in the host countries, this study examines the … - distinguishing between immigrants born within and outside the EU - based on data drawn from the European Labour Force Survey. The …
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. Re-migration is selective for both non-western and western immigrants, insofar as the probability of re-migration …Non-western immigrants in Norway are shown to rely heavily on welfare transfers for several years after immigration …. While refugee immigrants assimilate slightly out of welfare, other non-western immigrants assimilate rapidly into welfare …
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While most countries welcome (and some even subsidise) high-skilled immigrants, there is very limited evidence of their …
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This paper assesses the employment and earnings trajectories of refugee and family reunion category immigrants in … intake record of post 1979 immigrants with annual taxation records. The 2007 Swedish Register Data includes information on …-sex-schooling-place of birth cohorts looking specifically at non-economic (family reunion and refugee intake) immigrants from Iran, Iraq …
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continuum of tasks in each sector and we augment it to include immigrants with heterogeneous productivity in tasks. We use this … pushed natives toward more communication-intensive tasks while it has pushed immigrants away from them. …
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Immigrants may complement native workers, increase productivity, allow specialization by skill in the firm and lower … immigrants. Allowing firms to have differential fixed cost in hiring immigrants we analyze the impact of an increase in local … supply of immigrants on firms' immigrant employment and firm's productivity. Using micro-level data on French firms, we show …
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