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and preferences) and thus be significantly affected by immigration affecting the distribution of characteristics … immigration, which may change the composition of the population in the ability and/or preference dimension. -- work incentives …
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Immigration has been popularised in the economics literature as a tool to balance the troubled PAYG pension systems. A … pivotal research by Razin and Sadka showed that unskilled immigration can surmount the pension problem and, further, boost the … mechanisms through which unskilled immigration, while solving the pension problem, causes undesired shifts in general welfare …
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immigration policy over the last decade. Unlike previous studies, I analyze the evolution over time of these two types of … essentially on how immigration is perceived to affect wages and net welfare benefits. Specifically, I find that, when immigrants … welfare and put restrictions on migration. When migrants are mostly low-skilled (high-skilled), European citizens typically …
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their opposition to future immigration. In turn, an open-minded and tolerant attitude promotes mutual trust and solidarity … natives' support for redistribution, with attitudes towards immigrants and immigration acting as mediators. By applying … losing intangible goods triggered by immigration is substantial in the formation of natives' socio-political attitudes …
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on the development of new technologies across U.S. cities with historical settlement patterns for migrants from countries …
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Immigration has become one of the most divisive political issues in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and … several other Western countries. We estimate the impact of immigration on voting for far-left and far-right candidates in … immigration flows by past settlement patterns in 1968. We find that immigration increases support for far-right candidates and has …
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migrants are perfect substitutes within a firm. In this setting, a skilled labor supply shock due to immigration has two …In this paper, we provide new explanations for the puzzling findings in the literature that migrants do not decrease … natives' wages, and that skilled immigration can actually increase them. We develop a model with regional labor markets and …
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and preferences) and thus be significantly affected by immigration affecting the distribution of characteristics … immigration, which may change the composition of the population in the ability and/or preference dimension. …
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