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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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We investigate the difference in homeownership rate between natives and immigrants as well as its evolution in France using a large longitudinal dataset over the 1975-1999 period. For people staying on the territory the whole time (ie. stayers), we show that returns of characteristics change in...
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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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September Sample of the Current Population Survey (CPS) between 2004 and 2011, we examine the relationship between immigration … that migrants'social capital has an impact on receiving communities. Therefore immigrants' social capital (such as having …
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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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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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Economic debate about the consequences of immigration in Germany has largely focused on the wage effects for natives at … an aggregate level. Especially the role of imperfect substitutability of migrants and natives gained importance. A new … workers: migrants are heavily concentrated in agglomerations and work in different jobs than natives do. This gives an …
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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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assimilation for migrants in Germany by estimating fixed effects regressions for migrants and Germans separately. Based on the … migrants compared to native Germans by generating predictions and by averaging them by year. This approach allows to decompose … adjustment due to unobserved time-varying factors and age. If all migrants are tarred with the same brush (by pooling them into …
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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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