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demand and technology, production expansion, and specialization of native workers as immigration rises. …
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Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that many immigrants fail to integrate economically. Research shows that the option to naturalize has considerable economic benefits for eligible immigrants, even in countries with a tradition of restrictive policies. First-generation...
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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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immigrants from different countries and arriving under different immigration policy regimes vary in their probability of over …-qualification. The results suggest that both country of origin (sending factor) and immigration policy (selecting factor) matter and that …
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We empirically assess the relationship between cultural assimilation and subjective well-being of immigrants by using the German Socio-Economic Panel, a longitudinal dataset including information on both the economic and non-economic conditions of the respondents. We find that the more...
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This paper analyzes the effects of immigration on the education system of the receiving country from a political … key moments of Spain's economy and education system in year 2008, the end of a large episode of immigration. By means of … simulations we evaluate the effects of immigration on the size and quality of Spain's public education. Our main findings are as …
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immigration to help fight these tendencies, immigration levels in Japan are comparatively much lower. Increasing immigration to … immigration in Japan is surprisingly rare. Rather, public opposition to immigration is often unquestioningly taken as a given … on immigration at the national and regional levels, considering factors that can influence respondents' perceptions. In …
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This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. We merge information on individual characteristics from the … longitudinal component of the data to analyze how immigration affects the health of both immigrants and natives over time …. Our results suggest that immigration reduces residents' likelihood to report negative health outcomes by improving their …
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preferences over immigration. Using data from the European Social Survey from 2014 and 2015, our results document that individual … norms and values strongly shape preferences over immigration, even when controlling for expected costs and benefits from … immigration. In particular, we find that altruistic attitudes significantly raise the support for all types of immigration while …
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This paper reviews the recent literature on the effects of immigration on the public education of the host country … empirical studies, suggests the following conclusions. First, immigration has triggered native flight toward private schools in …-scale immigration is that it appears to undermine the political support for public education, resulting in a deterioration in the …
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