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the host countries. Through a general literature review and examination of specific immigration countries, we provide …
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the host countries. Through a general literature review and examination of specific immigration countries, we provide …
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early 20th century, I study immigration’s cross-generation effect on the native-born. I examine the causal impact of …-level immigration exposure. I show that childhood exposure to immigrants increases natives’ occupation ranks in adulthood, and children … of high-skilled fathers enjoy more benefits than their peers. The results suggest that immigration intensifies cross …
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Immigration is one of the most important policy debates in Western countries. However, one aspect of the debate is … often mischaracterized by accusations that higher levels of immigration lead to higher levels of crime. The evidence, based … on empirical studies of many countries, indicates that there is no simple link between immigration and crime, but …
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Immigration has increasingly taken centre-stage in the political landscape. Part of this has been rise in far …-right, anti-immigration parties in a range of countries. Existing evidence suggests that the presence of immigrants has a … substantial effect on the political views of the electorate, generating an advantage to these parties with anti-immigration or …
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Belgian LFS Ad Hoc Module on the labour market situation of migrants and their immediate descendants, we compare the … employment outcomes of labour migrants (with and without a job prior to migration), family reunion migrants, student migrants and … refugees with those of the native-born. In line with previous studies, we establish that refugees and family reunion migrants …
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assimilation for migrants in Germany by estimating fixed effects regressions for migrants and Germans separately. Based on the … migrants compared to native Germans by generating predictions and by averaging them by year. This approach allows to decompose … adjustment due to unobserved time-varying factors and age. If all migrants are tarred with the same brush (by pooling them into …
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decades, it is important to know both how migrants integrate into the destination countries and how immigration affects …-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the performance of migrants in the host society and the impact of migrants on …. Chapters 4 and 5 cover the effect of immigration on the host societies by showing that growing up in high immigration area …
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We compare winning and losing firms in lotteries for H-1B visas, matching administrative data on these lotteries to administrative tax data on U.S. firms and to approved U.S. patents. Winning one additional H-1B visa crowds out about 1.5 other workers at the firm. Additional H-1Bs have...
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This paper examines effects of the U.S. Immigration Act of 1990 on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and … STEM flows. We find that the Immigration Act changed natives' skill investment and utilization in three ways: (1) it pushed …
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