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The impact of immigrant peers on native students' academic achievement in countries where parents of immigrants are relatively skilled
Seah, Kelvin - 2016
in the share of immigrant children between different grade levels within schools is exploited to identify the impact of … immigrant peers. I find that exposure to immigrant children has dissimilar effects on native students' achievements across the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517456
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Green cards and the location choices of immigrants in the United States, 1971 - 2000
Jaeger, David A. (contributor) - 2006
This paper documents where immigrants who enter the U.S. with different types of visas ("green cards") choose to live initially and what determines those location choices. Using population data on immigrants from the Immigration and Naturalization Service from 1971 to 2000, matched to data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003328061
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Green Cards and the Location Choices of Immigrants in the United States, 1971-2000
Jaeger, David A. - 2006
This paper documents where immigrants who enter the U.S. with different types of visas (quot;green cardsquot;) choose to live initially and what determines those location choices. Using population data on immigrants from the Immigration and Naturalization Service from 1971 to 2000, matched to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780019
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Forced Federalism : States as Laboratories of Immigration Reform
Cunningham-Parmeter, Keith - 2016
This Article questions the experimental value of state immigration laws. Analyzing the Supreme Court’s major decisions in this area, including Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting, the Article explains why state immigration laws fail to satisfy two necessary conditions of effective experimentation:...
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The deterrence effect of immigration enforcement in transit countries : evidence from Central American deportees
Martinez Flores, Fernanda - 2018
. However, the question whether these measures are successful in deterring undocumented migrants has not been previously … implemented by the Mexican government in 2014, has curbed intentions of unauthorized migrants from El Salvador, Guatemala, and … deterring undocumented migrants. …
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Skilled migration policy and the labour market performance of immigrants
Tani, Massimiliano - 2017
1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of Migrants to Australia. The statistical techniques employed in the … an ineffective policy tool to influence migrants' labour market outcomes. However, the economic relevance of making an … effective use of migrants' skills provides scope for close coordination between immigration and employment policy to ensure that …
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Immigration enforcement and infant health
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Churchill, Brandyn F.; Song, Yang - 2020
importance of current immigration policies in shaping the birth outcomes of many American children. …
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Can legal status help unauthorized immigrants achieve the American dream? : evidence from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program
Wang, Jia; Winters, John V.; Yuan, Weici - In: Regional science & urban economics 95 (2022), pp. 1-14
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Ethnic enclaves and the economic success of immigrants : evidence from a natural experiment
Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Åslund, Olof - 2000
Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic enclaves within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a way...
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