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New Zealand’s immigration system aims to enhance well-being by promoting economic development, reuniting families and meeting humanitarian objectives. Immigration is high and residence admissions are focused on the high skilled to enhance economic outcomes. Empirical evidence suggests that...
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The share of the foreign-born in OECD countries is increasing, and this article summarizes economics research on the effects of immigration in those nations. Four broad topics are addressed: labor market issues, fiscal questions, the political economy of immigration, and...
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how they are selected: while economic immigrants are chosen based on skill and education, refugees migrate at times of … mobility of refugees at p25 is largely unaffected while that of non-refugees falls by around 2 percentiles. …
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associated with accepting refugees, (iv) the share of Muslim asylum-seekers, and (v) the share of war refugees. We find that … providing information about the fiscal costs associated with accepting refugees, and about the share of Muslim refugees … share of Muslim refugees are 18 percentage points more likely to call for abolishing the right of asylum when informed about …
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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...
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associated with accepting refugees, (iv) the share of Muslim asylum-seekers, and (v) the share of war refugees. We find that … providing information about the fiscal costs associated with accepting refugees, and about the share of Muslim refugees … share of Muslim refugees are 18 percentage points more likely to call for abolishing the right of asylum when informed about …
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This paper studies a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of exposure to refugees in the neighborhood on … percent of communities hosted refugees at the time of the election, exposure to refugees varied at the local level. To account … for the potential endogeneity in the distribution of refugees, I use pre-existing group accommodations as instrumental …
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Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone … identification strategy exploits that a scramble for accommodation determined the assignment of refugees to German counties resulting … in exogeneous variations in the number of refugees per county within and across states. Our estimates suggest that …
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distinguish between the contact theory, captured by the inflow of refugees into the immediate neighborhood (1km x 1km), and county …
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distinguish between the contact theory, captured by the inflow of refugees into the immediate neighborhood (1km x 1km), and county …
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