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Migration Trends and Drivers : A Review Analysis in Respect of International Policies Effects

Ulrika, Maude - 2021

This paper synthesizes insights from new global data on the effectiveness of migration policies. It investigates the … complex links between migration policies and migration trends to disentangle policy effects from structural migration … determinants. The analysis challenges two central assumptions underpinning the popular idea that migration restrictions have failed …

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The Political Effects of Immigration : Culture or Economics?

Alesina, Alberto; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration on a wide range of political and social outcomes. The existing evidence suggests that immigrants often, but not always, trigger backlash, increasing support for anti-immigrant...

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Legalization and long-term outcomes of immigrant workers

Deiana, Claudio; Giua, Ludovica; Nisticò, Roberto - 2022

This paper establishes a new fact about immigration policies: legalization has long-term effects on formal employment of undocumented immigrants and their assimilation. We exploit the broad amnesty enacted in Italy in 2002 together with rich survey data collected in 2011 on a representative...

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Asylum recognition rates in Europe: persecution, policies and performance

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2021

A minority of applicants for asylum in Europe gain some form of recognition as refugees, and this has been a controversial issue. From the early 2000s the EU introduced a series of directives to prevent a race to the bottom in asylum policies and to harmonise policy between destination countries...

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Immigrant Performance and Selective Immigration Policy : A European Perspective

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021

. Integrated labour and migration policies are needed. The employment chances of the low-skilled are limited. Whereas Europe could …

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Language Skills and Immigrant Adjustment : What Immigration Policy Can Do!

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2021

category, educational attainment and age at migration impact on immigrant's language skills. The increased English Proficiency …

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Aliyah to Israel : Immigration Under Conditions of Adversity

Neuman, Shoshana - 2021

"Operation Solomon". What were the factors that drove this unprecedented migration of Jews from around the globe to Israel? Many … of the major international migration movements were largely economic in nature (the push of poverty or the pull of … migration, which reflects failure to absorb, is discussed, and the very different absorption policies of the 1950s and the 1990s …

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Immigration : The New Zealand Experience

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2021

This paper starts with a historical review of the New Zealand immigration experience and policy. Data from the 1981 and 1996 New Zealand Censuses are then used to illustrate changes in the characteristics of immigrants as well as their labor outcomes. The decline in the income of recent...

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Canadian Immigration Experience : Any Lessons for Europe?

DeVoretz, Don J.; Laryea, Samuel A. - 2021

This paper reviews and analyzes the effects of Canada's post World War II immigration policies with the perspective of what European policy makers can learn from this experience. Impact of Immigration on natives' employment and earnings, as well as, immigrants' labor market experiences are...

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Immigration policy levers for U.S. : innovation and startups

Kerr, William R.; Pekkala Kerr, Sari - 2020

Immigrants account for about a quarter of US invention and entrepreneurship despite a policy environment that is not well suited for these purposes. This chapter reviews the U.S. immigration policy environment that governs how skilled migrants move to America for employment-based purposes. We...

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