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For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration restrictions to global economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research...
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national identity and attitudes towards immigration played. In addition to education, we find that national identity exerted a … East. Whereas, over and above this, concerns about immigration had a quantitatively large and highly significant impact in … identity and concerns about immigration having a larger impact for the English-born. Our findings are then discussed in the …
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This paper shows that globalization has far-reaching implications for the economy's fertility rate and family structure because it influences work-life balance. Employing population register data on all births, marriages, and divorces together with employer-employee linked data for Denmark, we...
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economic theory raises in favor of international labor mobility, the nations of the world maintain restrictions on immigration … and show little inclination to liberalize these barriers significantly. Michael Walzer defends immigration restrictions as …. The type of segregation that Walzer defends, enforced at the national level through immigration restrictions, cuts workers …
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attitudes towards globalization barriers (trade and immigration) and how important these attitudes are in how people vote. In … immigration. We also find that conservative voters in Sweden are more likely to prefer freer trade but higher immigration barriers … statistical significance while attitudes towards immigration barriers remain significant. This suggests that immigration attitudes …
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This paper studies the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production. We present four key findings … developing countries. Fourth, certain ‘push’ incentives that reduce immigration barriers—by addressing financing constraints for …
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This paper studies the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production. We present four key findings … developing countries. Fourth, certain 'push' incentives that reduce immigration barriers – by addressing financing constraints …
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investigate the ”global” determinants of populism, we look at trade and immigration jointly and consider their size as well as …-industrialization and of internet expansion. Low-skill immigration, on the other hand, tends to induce a transfer of votes from left-wing to … well as high-skill immigration, tend to reduce the volume of populism. …
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We analyse the gender-specific effects of trade liberalization on work participation and hours of work and primary participation in domestic duties in Indonesia. We show that female work participation increased in relative terms in regions that were more exposed to input tariff reductions,...
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Gender matters in economics - for even with today's technology, fertility choices, market opportunities, and improved social norms, economic outcomes for women remain markedly worse than for men. Drawing on insights from feminism, postmodernism, psychology, evolutionary biology, Marxism, and...
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