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Immigration and Institutional Change (Did Mass Immigration Cause Peronism in Argentina)
Cachanosky, Nicolas; Padilla, Alexandre; Gómez, Alejandro - 2021
This paper studies the relationship between mass immigration in Argentina and the rise of Juan D. Perón (the iconic … Argentine populist leader) in the mid-20th century. We find no evidence suggesting that mass immigration to Argentina from 1876 …
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The Age of Mass Migration in Argentina : Social Mobility, Effects on Growth, and Selection Patterns
Droller, Federico; Fiszbein, Martín; Pérez, Santiago - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Argentina was the second largest destination country during the Age of Mass Migration, receiving nearly six million … mobility in Argentina and immigration contributed positively to the process of economic development. We then turn our focus to … the selection patterns of Italian migrants to Argentina--the largest migratory group to this destination. Our analysis of …
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Political economy of immigration and fiscal sustainability
Hur, Jinwook - In: KDI-journal of economic policy 44 (2022) 1, pp. 1-47
This paper introduces a politico-economic model with a welfare state and immigration. In this model, policies on taxes and immigration are determined through a plurality voting system. While many studies of fiscal implications of immigration argue that relaxing immigration policies can...
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Hate at first sight? : dynamic aspects of the electoral impact of migration : the case of Ukip
Levi, Eugenio; Mariani, Rama Dasi; Patriarca, Fabrizio - 2019
In this paper, we test the hypothesis that the causal effect of immigrant presence on anti-immigrant votes is a short-run effect. For this purpose, we consider a distributed lag model and adapt the standard instrumental variable approach proposed by Altonji and Card (1991) to a dynamic...
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Immigration policy and self-selecting migrants
Bianchi, Milo (contributor) - 2006 - Rev. November 2, 2006
We explore the implications of migrants' self-selection for the determination of immigration policy in a simple model where incentives and resources to migrate vary with skills. We show how self-selection determines the response of potential migrants to immigration policy changes, which is...
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Walls and fences : a journey through history and economics
Vernon, Victoria; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020 - Pre-publication draft July 2020
Throughout history, border walls and fences have been built for defense, to claim land, to signal power, and to control migration. The costs of fortifications are large while the benefits are questionable. The recent trend of building walls and fences signals a paradox: In spite of the...
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Walls and fences : a journey through history and economics
Vernon, Victoria; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2019
Throughout history, border walls and fences have been built for defense, to claim land, to signal power, and to control migration. The costs of fortifications are large while the benefits are questionable. The recent trend of building walls and fences signals a paradox: In spite of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161476
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Introduction
Chiswick, Barry R. - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. xiii-xv). 2015
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Introduction
Chiswick, Barry R. - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. xiii-xv). 2015
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Chapter 23. Regional Studies : Latin America and the Caribbean
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Pozo, Susan - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 1261-1302). 2015
This chapter offers an overview of migration and remittance flows with respect to the Latin American and Caribbean region from the colonial period to the present. Themes that cross history are highlighted as are the reversals of trends. Emphasis is given to south–south migration, to the...
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