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Immigrants' deportations, local crime and police effectiveness

Hines, Annie Laurie; Peri, Giovanni - 2019

This paper analyzes the impact of immigrant deportations on local crime and police efficiency. Our identification … not reduce crime rates for violent offenses or property offenses. Our estimates are small and precise, so we can rule out …

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Do immigrants affect crime? : evidence from panel data for Germany

Maghularia, Rita; Übelmesser, Silke - 2019

The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German … positive association between the immigrant rate and the crime rate. We assess the robustness of this result by considering the … interpretation of the estimates. There is no evidence that immigrants increase crime. …

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The Infrastructure and Other Costs of Immigration

Musgrave, Ralph S. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

£2-5bn more in tax than they withdraw from the public purse. The workings behind this figure omit the cost of the … subsidiary questions are thus. 1. Should the cost of educating immigrants’ children (£7.6bn a year) be attributed to immigration … do. The final figure for the cost imposed on UK natives by immigrants (about £12bn a year) is tentative, first because …

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Ethnic enclaves and welfare cultures : quasi-experimental evidence

Åslund, Olof; Fredriksson, Peter - 2005

We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts? the number of individuals of the same ethnicity?and the quality of contacts – welfare use among members of the ethnic group....

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Social Harmony at the Boundaries of the Welfare State: Immigrants and Social Transfers

Epstein, Gil S.; Hillman, Arye L. - 2000

The social contract of the welfare state can be strained by the arrival of immigrants who receive welfare payments financed by citizens? taxes. We show, however, that the presence of unemployed immigrants receiving welfare payments is consistent with social harmony. The social harmony, which is...

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Ethnic Enclaves and Welfare Cultures: Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Åslund, Olof; Fredriksson, Peter - 2005

We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts – the number of individuals of the same ethnicity – and the quality of contacts – welfare use among members of the ethnic...

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Intergenerational earnings mobility among the children of Canadian immigrants

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Chen, Wen-Hao; Corak, Miles - 2006

We analyze the intergenerational income mobility of Canadians born to immigrants using the 2001 Census. A detailed portrait of the Canadian population is offered as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of immigrants from 70 countries. The degree of persistence...

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Immigrants and welfare programmes: Exploring the interactions between immigrant characteristics, immigrant welfare dependence and welfare policy

Barrett, Alan; McCarthy, Yvonne - 2008

The primary purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the papers within the economics literature that have examined the questions of immigrant welfare use and the responsiveness of immigrants to the incentives created by welfare systems. While our focus is largely on papers looking at the...

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Immigrants and welfare receipt in Ireland

Barrett, Alan; Joyce, Corona; Maître, Bertrand - 2011

Since 2004, Ireland has included in its system of social welfare payments criteria for receipt which limit the extent to which immigrants can receive welfare payments. In this paper, we compare the rates of receipt of welfare for immigrants and natives to see if the outcome is consistent with...

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Immigrant welfare receipt across Europe

Barrett, Alan; Maître, Bertrand - 2011

The issue of welfare receipt by immigrants is highly controversial across Europe. In this paper, we assess whether immigrants are more likely to receive welfare payments relative to natives across a range of European countries. Using the European Union Survey on Income and Living Conditions for...

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