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Empirical methods in the economics of international immigration
Lozano, Fernando A.; Steinberger, Michael D. - 2010
migration. We begin by exploring the three broad research areas that economists examine when researching immigration. We then …
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Do immigrant workers depress the wages of native workers? : short-term wage effects of immigrants are close to zero : and in the long term immigrants can boost productivity and wag...
Peri, Giovanni - 2014
demand and technology, production expansion, and specialization of native workers as immigration rises. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417057
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Naturalization and citizenship : who benefits? : liberalizing access to citizenship has labor market benefits for immigrants and can improve their assimilation
Gathmann, Christina - 2015
Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that many immigrants fail to integrate economically. Research shows that the option to naturalize has considerable economic benefits for eligible immigrants, even in countries with a tradition of restrictive policies. First-generation...
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Immigration and economic growth in the OECD countries 1986 - 2006
Boubtane, Ekrame; Dumont, Jean-Christophe; Rault, Christophe - 2015
. However, the growth impact of immigration is small even in countries that have highly selective migration policies. …
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The impact of welfare benefits on natives' and immigrants' attitudes towards immigration : background paper for "migration in an ageing Europe: what are the challenges?"
Huber, Peter; Oberdabernig, Doris A. - 2015
We investigate whether the dependence of immigrants on welfare benefits leads to opposition to further immigration by … natives lead to less favourable attitudes of natives towards immigration. Interestingly, we do not find similar stylised facts … for immigrants' attitudes towards immigration. …
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Immigration, growth and unemployment : panel VAR evidence from OECD countries
Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - 2013
This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009766677
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Over-qualification of immigrants in the UK
Altorjai, Szilvia - 2013
immigrants from different countries and arriving under different immigration policy regimes vary in their probability of over …-qualification. The results suggest that both country of origin (sending factor) and immigration policy (selecting factor) matter and that …
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The fiscal impact of immigrants in Austria : a generational accounting analysis
Mayr, Karin - 2004
1998 as well as the inter-temporal fiscal impact of immigration to Austria. Immigrants affect inter-temporal fiscal balance …. The overall fiscal effect of immigration is found positive, under the assumption that the age and fiscal characteristics … payments during working age. However, immigration is not likely to achieve inter-temporal fiscal balance, even if immigration …
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Do high-skill immigrants raise productivity? : evidence from Israeli manufacturing firms, 1990-1999
Paserman, Marco Daniele - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-31
study the effect high skill immigration on productivity. Using a unique data set on manufacturing firms, I investigate …
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Life satisfaction of immigrants : does cultural assimilation matter?
Angelini, Viola; Casi, Laura; Corazzini, Luca - 2014
We empirically assess the relationship between cultural assimilation and subjective well-being of immigrants by using the German Socio-Economic Panel, a longitudinal dataset including information on both the economic and non-economic conditions of the respondents. We find that the more...
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