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The long-run effect of Mexican immigration on crime in US cities : evidence from variation in Mexican fertility rates
Chalfin, Aaron - In: The American economic review 105 (2015) 5, pp. 220-225
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A new approach to migrant labor rights enforcement : the crisis of undocumented worker abuse and Mexican consular advocacy in the United States
Bada, Xóchitl; Gleeson, Shannon - In: Labor studies journal : official journal of United … 40 (2015) 1, pp. 32-53
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Eastern European immigrants in the UK before and after the 2004 European enlargement
Longhi, Simonetta; Rokicka, Magdalena - 2012 - This version: 31 January 2012
The 2004 accession of Eastern European countries to the EU has generated concerns about the influx of low-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...
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Jobs or amenities : what determines the migration balances of cities?
Buch, Tanja; Hamann, Silke; Niebuhr, Annekatrin; … - 2012
The population growth of cities in industrialized countries is characterized by striking disparities. While some cities experience a kind of resurgence in recent years others suffer from an ongoing depopulation. In this context an important issue refers to the question whether labour market...
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A cohort integration analysis of work and education participation among internal mobile and non-mobile immigrants by reason for immigration
Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - 2016
The aim of the paper is to analyse immigrants' participation versus non-participation in the regional labour markets and/or in education. For comparison we have followed groups of immigrants by their reason for immigration, like refugees, labor-, family- and education-immigrants and Nordic...
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The labor market impact of mobility restrictions : evidence from the West Bank
Calì, Massimiliano; Miaari, Sami H. - 2013
Using data on Israeli closures inside the West Bank, we provide novel evidence on the labor market effects of conflict-induced restrictions to mobility. To identify the effects we exploit the fact that the placement of physical barriers by Israel was exogenous to local labor market conditions....
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Spatial typology of the ageing process in the European Union on the Level NUTS 2 regions
Šotkovský, Ivan - 2014
The article is deal with the spatial differences of the demographic events between European Union regions. We are research spatial diferencies of ageing process between 272 NUTS 2 regions today. The analyses on this spatial level are working with the creation of cartogram method for processing...
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Old-age poverty : the household perspective : a microsimulation approach of pension entitlements in Germany
Finkler, Sebastian - 2019 - This version: 11 February 2019
Providing a decent living standard and preventing old-age poverty are the two major challenges of pension insurance schemes. Replacement rates below the poverty line despite many years of contribution represent a major challenge for public pension schemes with respect to the systems "raison...
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Is there discriminatory mortgage pricing against immigrants in the Spanish lending market?
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Raya, Josep Maria - 2011
In this paper, we investigate whether evidence of discriminatory treatment against immigrants in the Spanish mortgage market exists. More specifically, we test whether, ceteris paribus, immigrant borrowers tend to be charged with higher interest rates on their mortgages than their Spanish born...
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Unequal pay or unequal employment? : what drives the self-selection of internal migrants in Germany?
Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, Florian - 2011 - Preliminary Version: March 3, 2011
, then, reflect both regional pay and employment differentials. In such a context, migrants tend to move to regions that best … its in-migrants. A higher employment inequality in Eastern as compared to Western Germany may, thus, be the missing link … to explain the fact that East-West migrants tend to be rather unskilled. …
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