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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 paper investigates whether employer sanctions for hiring undocumented workers introduced by the 1986 Immigration …
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Vor dem Hintergrund des Ausscheidens der geburtenstarken Jahrgänge der Babyboomer aus dem Arbeitsmarkt wird Deutschland in den nächsten Jahren in zunehmendem Maße auf Fachkräfte aus dem Ausland angewiesen sein, um Wachstum und Wohlstand zu sichern. Gleichzeitig schreitet der demografische...
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Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers, or by natural and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and evidence to place lower bounds on the ad valorem equivalent of labor mobility barriers to the United...
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Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers, or by natural and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and evidence to place lower bounds on the ad valorem equivalent of labor mobility barriers to the United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983131
Switzerland has experienced a substantial influx of immigrants over the last 50 years after World War II, which has led Switzerland to have among the highest share of foreigners in population among all OECD countries. This paper analyses the migration experience of Switzerland. The analysis...
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On September 23, 2013, the Dominican Republic's Constitutional Tribunal ruled in the case of Juliana Deguis Pierre that offspring born in the Dominican Republic after 1929 to undocumented immigrants are not Dominican nationals. The 147 page opinion put an end to diverse interpretations of the...
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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 … problems. Unfortunately, state immigration laws do not meet these criteria because states operate in a system of “forced …
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emphasis on their advantages and disadvantages. The recent immigration policies of a number of major immigrant … and international students is discussed, as is and the recent emergence of two-step immigration policies that favor … temporary migrants already in the country as sources of permanent immigration. An overview of key results in the literature on …
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We investigate whether the dependence of immigrants on welfare benefits leads to opposition to further immigration by … natives lead to less favourable attitudes of natives towards immigration. Interestingly, we do not find similar stylised facts … for immigrants' attitudes towards immigration. …
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