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One of the fundamental questions in the social sciences is whether modern welfare states can be sustained as countries welcome more immigrants. On theoretical grounds, the relationship between immigration and support for redistribution is ambiguous. Immigration may increase ethnic diversity,...
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level covariates, migration costs, and when testing for stochastic dominance of the skill distributions of migrants and …We analyze the effects of governmental redistribution of income on migration patterns,using an Italian administrative … redistribution receive a negative selection of Italian migrants. This holds true after accounting for many individual and country …
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Cosmopolitan or anxious? In order to test the influence of conflicting aspects of identity, German respondents were asked about their attitude towards a Syrian refugee the description of whom was varied in various domains (N=662). Once the refugee is described as being aware of as well as open...
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earnings. We single out Qatar as a case study. We consider two types of migrants: target migrants, and non-target migrants. If … migrants are target migrants, we show that in order to neutralize the effect of a tax on their earnings, Qatar needs to extend … the length of time migrants are allowed to stay. Such a scheme can work even when the migrants experience utility loss …
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Anti-immigrant sentiment is frequently motivated by the idea that migrants are a threat to the host country's culture … (Rapoport et al., 2020). We contribute to the discussion by investigating whether migrants adapt their social preferences (SPs … migrants' preferences strongly correlate with their host population's SPs and provide some evidence of a causal relationship. …
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dynamics of international migration by highlighting the role of tradition in propelling migration; by admitting that the human … capital formation response to the prospect of migration is gradual; by studying the impact of such formation on economic … growth and welfare; by working out the consequences of the migration of parents for the wellbeing of their children; by …
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strengthens their inclination to resort to migration as a means of reducing this heightened stress. Other things held constant …
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proximity has a positive spillover effect on social capital towards other migrants. This implies that, while the refugee crisis …
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