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. Interestingly, right-wing parties started to attract less votes near Medieval ports only when immigration had become a very salient …
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The United States provides a unique laboratory for understanding how the cultural, institutional, and human capital endowments of immigrant groups shape economic outcomes. In this paper, we use census micro-sample information to reconstruct the country-of-ancestry distribution for US counties...
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We study the effects of European immigration to the United States during the Age of Mass Migration (1850–1920) on … economic prosperity today. We exploit variation in the extent of immigration across counties arising from the interaction of … locations with more historical immigration today have higher incomes, less poverty, less unemployment, higher rates of …
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developed nation decides its optimal mix of immigration quotas and defensive counterterrorism actions. Even though proactive …. Increases in the unskilled immigration quota augment terrorism against the developed country. By contrast, increases in the … skilled immigration quota can reduce terrorism in the developed country if skilled migrants have a small marginal impact on …
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migrant makes his decisions based on his own well-being as well as that of his household in Mexico and his community in Mexico …, other-ethnicity-based networks in the United States, and community networks in Mexico. Social capital from friendships … and is significant in both as well. Social capital in Mexico has a significant negative impact on the two remittance …
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This article uses Bourdieu's theory of practice (BTOP) to understand immigrants' acculturation. It synthesizes research findings by discussing acculturation as: (1) equalization of immigrants' and natives' development (convergence); (2) language and social practices related to economic,...
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positive outside it. Job-specific estimates of this kind are useful alongside more generalized evaluations of immigration … because immigration policy often regulates access to specific occupations. …
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We use new longitudinal census microdata to provide the first causal evidence of how gentrification affects a broad set of outcomes for original resident adults and children. Gentrification modestly increases out-migration, though movers are not made observably worse off and neighborhood change...
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