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As migration rates increase across the world, the choice of whether to retire in the host or home country is becoming a key decision for up to 15% of the world’s population, and this proportion is growing rapidly. Large waves of immigrants who re-settled in the second half of the 20th century...
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In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...
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If immigration causes a decrease in social cohesion, then it may also be an important contributing factor in the recent … failure of financial institutions. The present analysis finds some evidence for a negative relationship between immigration … counterpoint, lending support to the alternative idea that immigration does not in fact decrease social cohesion. …
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This paper studies the individual-level relationship between immigration and property crime in England and Wales using …, the estimates across all model specifications, although imprecise, indicate that immigration status and property crime are … negatively associated. We finally find that the estimated relationship between immigration status and property crime differs …
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natives and that there is no return to pre-immigration work experience, suggesting imperfect transferability of human capital …
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proxy for knowledge flows and regressed on immigration and other control variables; the effect of immigration on patent … citations is found to be positive and statistically significant. Additionally, the coefficient on immigration is found to be …
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This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high-skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger...
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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States-looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply...
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We propose a theory of free movement of goods and labor between two economies in the presence of moral hazard. Each country produces two final goods where the productive efforts of workers cannot be perfectly observed, or verified only in the complex industry. We show that national institutional...
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This paper investigates how immigration can affect the labor market outcomes of native workers when their wages are … that the monthly wage of native workers covered by fixed-term contracts decreases in response to immigration, while …
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