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This paper investigates whether host society culture affects migrant wage discrimination, i.e. whether migrant wage discrimination is more intense in host societies where culture is more inward-looking. The motivation for this investigation in the Swiss context stems from two stylized facts...
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. -- immigration ; migration ; labour market ; culture ; political preferences ; wage discrimination ; Switzerland …
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paper also provides evidence that racism and immigration phobia play a key role in shaping Europeans' support of a ban on … Muslim immigration. This finding challenges the discourse and campaigns of the populist groups who exploit the 'Islamization … of Europe' rhetoric successfully and use various pretexts to justify a call for a ban on Muslims' immigration, e.g. the …
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Using information from the world values survey wave 6 containing information from 78,743 respondents in 53 countries, we examine the factors which influence respondents' answers to the question: "when jobs are scarce, should employers give priority to people of the country of origin rather than...
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Canada’s immigration policy aims to promote economic development by selecting immigrants with high levels of human …-class immigrants, who are selected for their skills, are by far the largest group. The immigration system has been highly successful … language skills and a decline in returns to pre-immigration labour market experience. Canada has responded by modifying its …
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We study discrimination against immigrants using micro-level data from Switzerland, where, until recently, some municipalities used referendums to decide on the citizenship applications of foreign residents. We show that naturalization decisions vary dramatically with immigrants' attributes,...
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This paper uses a dynamic efficiency-wage model to analyze the consequences of immigration for a small country when … three regimes for rising immigration levels. Immigration is most beneficial for natives in the intermediate regime. An … growing opposition to immigration …
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This association study examines whether or not employers are more likely to support immigration than employees, using … Round 1 of the European Social Survey. We focus on the labor-market impact of immigration in the host country because it is … the labor market. We find evidence to suggest that employers are more likely to be pro-immigration than employees …
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We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that culminated in the Amerasian Homecoming Act....
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This paper compares the net fiscal position (NFP) of immigrants versus natives using data from the European Survey on Living Conditions (EU-SILC) for the period 2007-2015. By employing a quantile regression approach, we find that European and non-European migrants have a different fiscal...
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