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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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Using Norwegian administrative data, we examine how exposure to immigration over the past decades has affected natives …' earnings rank. By exploiting variation in immigration patterns over time across commuting zones, we find that immigration from …, whereas immigration from high‐income countries has leveled it. Given the large inflow of immigrants from low-income countries …
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in wage premia and employment across the firm pay distribution, during a large immigration wave in Germany. These adverse …
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immigration literature. Empirical quantifications for the U.S. reveal that the indirect fiscal benefit of one low … has previously been documented. This challenges the perception of low-skilled immigration as a fiscal burden. …
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We analyze the employment effects of immigration within a model that accounts for several stylized facts of the German … wages results from employment shifts from low-wage to high-wage sectors. Employment effects of immigration are opposite to … those of a rise in the minimum wage. For plausible parameter values, immigration raises employment of the home labor force …
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natives' wages, and that skilled immigration can actually increase them. We develop a model with regional labor markets and … migrants are perfect substitutes within a firm. In this setting, a skilled labor supply shock due to immigration has two … wage adjustments. Second, the average native's wage can be partially sheltered from the negative effect of immigration …
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In this paper, we present a formal framework of possible network formations among immigrants. After arriving in the new country, one of the new immigrant’s important decisions is with whom to maintain a link in the foreign country. We find that the behavior of the first two immigrants affects...
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This paper explores the relationship of immigrant citizenship ascension and the effect on the naturalized citizen's economic outcomes in Europe and North America. We offer a unique model and empirical outcomes to define optimal waiting periods for immigrant ascension to citizenship by entry...
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of immigration? Does social interaction affect this preference or is the immigration preference completely in line with … immigration than the highly educated. Experience with foreigners arising from social contact matters in positively appreciating … significant effect on the evaluation of the number of foreigners present. The biggest effect on immigration preferences is …
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carried out with alternative preferential patterns and rates of immigration. Of particular interest is the proportion of mixed … rate at which population mixing could occur under alternative assumptions about the immigration rate and preferences for …
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