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Despite considerable research on differences in labour market outcomes between native born New Zealanders and immigrants, the extent of discrimination experienced by the foreign born in the workplace remains relatively unexplored. We use micro data from the Confidentialised Unit Record File of...
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New Zealand’s immigration system aims to enhance well-being by promoting economic development, reuniting families and … meeting humanitarian objectives. Immigration is high and residence admissions are focused on the high skilled to enhance … economic outcomes. Empirical evidence suggests that immigration has had small positive effects on per capita incomes and has …
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paper also provides evidence that racism and immigration phobia play a key role in shaping Europeans' support of a ban on … Muslim immigration. This finding challenges the discourse and campaigns of the populist groups who exploit the 'Islamization … of Europe' rhetoric successfully and use various pretexts to justify a call for a ban on Muslims' immigration, e.g. the …
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Using information from the world values survey wave 6 containing information from 78,743 respondents in 53 countries, we examine the factors which influence respondents' answers to the question: "when jobs are scarce, should employers give priority to people of the country of origin rather than...
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We study discrimination against immigrants using micro-level data from Switzerland, where, until recently, some municipalities used referendums to decide on the citizenship applications of foreign residents. We show that naturalization decisions vary dramatically with immigrants' attributes,...
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This association study examines whether or not employers are more likely to support immigration than employees, using … Round 1 of the European Social Survey. We focus on the labor-market impact of immigration in the host country because it is … the labor market. We find evidence to suggest that employers are more likely to be pro-immigration than employees …
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We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that culminated in the Amerasian Homecoming Act....
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This paper compares the net fiscal position (NFP) of immigrants versus natives using data from the European Survey on Living Conditions (EU-SILC) for the period 2007-2015. By employing a quantile regression approach, we find that European and non-European migrants have a different fiscal...
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Israel perceives the immigration of Jews as one of its major goals and thus it applies no selection rules towards them …. Jewish immigration to Israel hailed from Arab countries as well as European countries. While immigration has shaped the rate … consequences of immigration particularly interesting and there is a comprehensive literature on various aspects of Jewish …
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