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Previous studies on the determinants of attitudes toward immigration can be classified into those that take a … utilitarian perspective, focusing on individuals’ perceptions of real-world impacts of immigration, and those that look at … immigration attitudes from the point of view of ideological orientation, focusing on broad political norms and values. While …
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selective out-migration literature, our basic structure assumes that the process that determines out-migration is unrelated to …
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the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … the host countries. Through a general literature review and examination of specific immigration countries, we provide …
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that the probability of suffering from poor mental health increases with time since migration. In addition, female …
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Africa, with particular focus on Ghana, shows that despite the prevalence of intra-regional migration, most governments … necessarily applicable. On the one hand, borders are generally more porous and immigration controls more lax, so that assimilation … linguistic, cultural and ethnic diversity tends to be higher in West Africa, so basing immigration integration on multicultural …
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Quite often, migrants appear to exert little effort to absorb the mainstream culture and to learn the language of their host society, even though the economic returns (increased productivity and enhanced earnings) to assimilation are high. We show that when interpersonal comparisons affect...
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international migration network, I document that opinion changes at the origins spill over to 1st- and 2nd-generation immigrants …
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This paper examines the economic and related consequences of immigration from a less developed country (LDC) to a … evolved welfare case, immigration is only an advantage for the immigrant, especially one with less marketable skills, while it …
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the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … the host countries. Through a general literature review and examination of specific immigration countries, we provide …
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prohibited additional immigration and announced that their task would thereafter be to incorporate their immigrant … sparked. The ongoing restructuring of the welfare state and the transformation of migration into a contentious fixture of …
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