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Economic reasons along with cultural affinities and the existence of networks have been the main determinants explaining migration flows between home and host countries. This paper reconsiders these approaches combined with the gravity model and empirically tests the hypothesis that ex-colonial...
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The literature has noted that native views about legal as opposed to undocumented immigration in the U.S. differ …. Furthermore, native views about immigration are known to vary by gender. Yet, most surveys do not inquire native men and women … differences in native male and female opinions with regards to legal and undocumented immigration and their determinants. Native …
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expected probability of securing US employment after graduation. The H-1B visa provides a primary means of legal employment for …, hence lowering the probability of a college-educated foreign-national finding employment, and possibly discouraging highly … effect estimates show that the restrictive immigration policy has had an adverse impact on the quality of prospective …
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immigration; should immigrants preserve their traditions and culture while living in the host country (integration … this issue goes to the heart of internal policy formulation on immigration but is also influential to the image that the …
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Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of … sectors, predicts that immigration boosts output per worker by expanding the high-productivity sector, but decreases output … support for these predictions. -- Immigration ; sectoral change ; output growth ; post-war Germany …
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This paper compares the effects of immigration flows on economic outcomes and crime levels to the public opinion about … non-random location choices of immigrants and find that immigration has no adverse effects on regional unemployment rates … confirm the public opinion about the contribution of immigration to higher crime levels, suggesting that Australians …
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role of employment opportunities in explaining the growing immigrant flows of recent years. Subsequently, we investigate … whether immigrant inflows have helped reduce regional employment disparities. Our results indicate that immigrants choose to … reside in regions with higher employment rates for their particular skills. However, perhaps owing to its recent nature or …
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We study the effects of high skilled immigration on employment and net income in the receiving economy where the market … empirical fact that high and low skilled workers are close albeit imperfect substitutes, we show that high skilled immigration … can either be beneficial or harmful, both in terms of employment and net income. More precisely, we conclude that a Pareto …
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Die öffentliche Debatte um Zuwanderung und Integration wird auch heute, ein halbes Jahrhundert nach dem Beginn der neueren Immigrationsgeschichte der Bundesrepublik, noch oft unsachlich geführt. Über die durchweg positiven Erfahrungen mit den ökonomischen Zusammenhängen von Migration,...
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This paper asks the following important question: what was the effect of surging immigration on average and individual … of adjustment of physical capital we show that most of the wage effects of immigration accrue to native workers already …-2004 immigration on the average wage of U.S.-born workers overall, both in the short and in the long run. This positive average effect …
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