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Migration across well-developed countries has been overlooked in the immigration literature. The present study is … Registers. We analyze eight groups of German immigrants - by country of destination (the US/ Sweden), gender, and skill level …
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components of ethnicity - country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion - among persons admitted to legal permanent …
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Recent decades have seen a surge in local interior immigration enforcement. In this paper we examine a little discussed … in intensity of immigration enforcement in a local area reduced the labor supply of citizen college- educated women with …
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This paper investigates the nexus between consumption and social integration of Chinese migrant workers using survey data with 869 samples from four Chinese provinces. The study suggests the following results: (1) Migrant workers are less integrated in terms of psychological integration and...
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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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We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
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Using a recent survey of immigrants to France, we provide a detailed analysis of the educational attainment and labor market performance of various sub-population groups in France. Our results indicate that immigrants to France are less educated than the native born and that these differences...
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Immigration reform is once again on Washington's policy agenda. Serious attention is being given to policies that would … place more emphasis on merit than on family ties, which are favored by much of the current US immigration system. One way to … auctions that could serve as a starting point for designing a better immigration policy. We recommend replacing the current …
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Despite being one of the most prolific spenders on active labour market policies, and investing heavily in civic integration programmes, family policies and career and diversity plans, the native-migrant employment gap in Belgium is still one of the largest among EU and OECD countries. Past...
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Poland is a country being exposed to emigration and immigration flows relatively recently. That, among others, results … shows moderate positive impact of immigration fitting demand mostly in agriculture, construction and household services. We … analyse an impact of immigration on the domestic labour market in Poland. The immigrants fill gaps existing due to relatively …
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