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We study discrimination against immigrants using micro-level data from Switzerland, where, until recently, some municipalities used referendums to decide on the citizenship applications of foreign residents. We show that naturalization decisions vary dramatically with immigrants' attributes,...
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This association study examines whether or not employers are more likely to support immigration than employees, using … Round 1 of the European Social Survey. We focus on the labor-market impact of immigration in the host country because it is … the labor market. We find evidence to suggest that employers are more likely to be pro-immigration than employees …
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This paper investigates whether employer sanctions for hiring undocumented workers introduced by the 1986 Immigration …
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The aim of this paper is to present an overall assessment of immigration in Spain. In order to do so, we analyse the … evolution and composition of migration flows from and to Spain during the last decades. In addition, we explore in detail the … demographic and socio-economic characteristics of Latin American and Caribbean immigrants in Spain. …
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This paper compares the net fiscal position (NFP) of immigrants versus natives using data from the European Survey on Living Conditions (EU-SILC) for the period 2007-2015. By employing a quantile regression approach, we find that European and non-European migrants have a different fiscal...
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Israel perceives the immigration of Jews as one of its major goals and thus it applies no selection rules towards them …. Jewish immigration to Israel hailed from Arab countries as well as European countries. While immigration has shaped the rate … consequences of immigration particularly interesting and there is a comprehensive literature on various aspects of Jewish …
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We investigate whether immigrant and minority workers’ poor access to high-wage jobs— that is, glass ceilings— is attributable to poor access to jobs in high-wage …rms, a phenomenon we call glass doors. Our analysis uses linked employer-employee data to measure mean- and...
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In this paper, the immigrant-native wage differential is explained through quantile regression estimations. Using repeated cross-sections of the British Labour Force Survey from 1993-2005, we analyse the returns to covariates across the conditional earnings distribution. We estimate a pooled...
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This paper compares the net fiscal position (NFP) of immigrants versus natives using data from the European Survey on Living Conditions (EU-SILC) for the period 2007-2015. By employing a quantile regression approach, we find that European and non-European migrants have a different fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012417015
We investigate the effect of immigration on consumer prices in Spain between 1997 and 2013. Using variation across … that immigration has actually reduced consumer prices in Spain. An increase in the share of migrants by 10 percentage … immigration from outside Western Europe that led to a reduction in consumer prices, while the effect of immigration from Western …
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