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of redistributive policies are affected by poverty and immigration. We find that while information about poverty has no … detectable impact on the progressivity of the respondents' demanded income tax schedule, information about immigration has a … response to both poverty and immigration, while low income respondents desire less public expenditure on education due to …
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Economic debate about the consequences of immigration in Germany has largely focused on the wage effects for natives at …
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September Sample of the Current Population Survey (CPS) between 2004 and 2011, we examine the relationship between immigration …
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-skill immigrants to those countries which did not impose restrictions to immigration, namely Ireland, Sweden, and the UK. However …, there is lack of recent systematic evidence on the level of immigration and the quality of the new immigrants. We focus on … the UK and combine the British and the European Labour Force Surveys to analyse whether immigration to the UK has changed …
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It is quite common in convergence analyses across regions that data exhibit strong spatial dependence. While the literature adopting the regression approach is now fully aware that neglecting this feature may lead to inaccurate results and has therefore suggested a number of statistical tools...
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This study compares the outcomes of male foreign workers from different East and West European countries who entered the German labour market between 1995 and 2000, with those of male German workers. We find that the immigrant-native wage gap differs significantly between nationalities: the...
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Using longitudinal employment register data this study analyzes the development of outcomes of male foreign workers from all important sending countries across time. Cohort analyses on persons entering the German labour market between 1995 and 2000 show significant differences in the...
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and/or in education. For comparison we have followed groups of immigrants by their reason for immigration, like refugees … immigrants' reason for immigration. Immigrants who remain outside of employment and/or education is mostly to be found among … refugees, family-immigrants and immigrants with unspecified reason for immigration, while education- and labor-immigrants and …
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The immigration to Norway has increased strongly since the turn of the millennium and especially since the eastward EU … their reason of immigration. The immigration has changed from a gender balance during the first years of the 2000 towards a … clear male dominance after 2005, mostly due to increased labour immigration. The immigration has changed from a dominance of …
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recent literature developed since the 1990s, through the work of Gould (1994), on the relationship between immigration and … international trade, we propose in this paper to assess the impact of Algerian immigration networks on Algerian exports. It is clear …
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