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What institutions help immigrants integrate?

Huber, Peter - 2015

I analyse the importance of national migration policy and labour market institutions for immigrants' labour market integration. Results indicate that the sending country structure of immigrants to a country, its ethnic diversity and its wage bargaining institutions as well as product market...

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How does immigration fit into the future of the U.S. labor market?

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline; Gullo, Stephanie - 2020

data and historical experience. Of course, immigration - like anything else - is not without costs, which are … disproportionately borne by the least educated. A plan to increase employment-based immigration as a way to spur economic growth could be … paired with new programs to help low-skilled U.S. natives and earlier immigrants so that the benefits of immigration are …

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Immigration policy levers for U.S. : innovation and startups

Kerr, William R.; Pekkala Kerr, Sari - 2020

well suited for these purposes. This chapter reviews the U.S. immigration policy environment that governs how skilled …

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The labor market integration of refugee migrants in high-income countries

Brell, Courtney; Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian - 2020

We provide an overview of the integration of refugees into the labor markets of a number of high-income countries. Discussing the ways in which refugees and economic migrants are differently selected and so might be expected to perform differently in a host country's labor market, we examine...

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How does immigration fit into the future of the U.S. labor market?

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline; Gullo, Stephanie - 2019

data and historical experience. Of course, immigration—like anything else—is not without costs, which are … disproportionately borne by the least educated. A plan to increase employment-based immigration as a way to spur economic growth could be … paired with new programs to help low-skilled U.S. natives and earlier immigrants so that the benefits of immigration are …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230526

Hate at first sight? : dynamic aspects of the electoral impact of migration : the case of Ukip

Levi, Eugenio; Mariani, Rama Dasi; Patriarca, Fabrizio - 2019

In this paper, we test the hypothesis that the causal effect of immigrant presence on anti-immigrant votes is a short-run effect. For this purpose, we consider a distributed lag model and adapt the standard instrumental variable approach proposed by Altonji and Card (1991) to a dynamic...

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Immigration policy and remittance behaviour

Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Tchuente, Guy - 2017

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants …

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The effect of attitudes toward migrants on migrant skill composition

Avdiu, Besart - 2017

I investigate the effect of attitudes toward migrants on the average skill composition of immigrants in destination countries. A model is presented showing that negative attitudes toward migrants in general can reduce the average skill composition. The intuition for the result is that the highly...

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Will skill-based immigration policies lead to lower remittances? : an analysis of the relations between education, sponsorship, and remittances

Mukhopadhyay, Sankar; Zou, Miaomiao - 2018

results suggest that skill-based immigration policies are likely to result in more remittances. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798154

Understanding the effects of legalizing undocumented immigrants

Monras, Joan; Vázquez-Grenno, Javier; Elias, Ferran - 2018

This paper investigates the consequences of the legalization of around 600,000 immigrants by the unexpectedly elected Spanish government of Zapatero following the terrorist attacks of March 2004 (Garcia-Montalvo, 2011). Using detailed data from payroll-tax revenues, we estimate that each newly...

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