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authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that immigration significantly increases crime. The crime impact of immigration …
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Using a recent survey of immigrants to France, we provide a detailed analysis of the educational attainment and labor market performance of various sub-population groups in France. Our results indicate that immigrants to France are less educated than the native born and that these differences...
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We exploit the increase in immigration flows into western European countries that took place in the 2000s to assess … whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality among European natives. Using data from the … estimations that deal with the endogenous sorting of immigration by region and with the sampling error in survey based measures of …
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We examine whether labor market concerns causally affect people's support for immigration. Using a large …, representative sample of the US population, we first elicit beliefs about the labor market impact of immigration. To generate … labor market impacts of immigration. We find that treated respondents update their beliefs about the labor market impact of …
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Upon arrival to a new country, many immigrants face job downgrading, a phenomenon describing workers being in jobs far below where they would be assigned based on their skills. Downgrading leads to immigrants receiving lower returns to the same skills than natives. The level of downgrading could...
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Do labor market concerns affect support for immigration? Using a large, representative sample of the US population, we … first elicit beliefs about the labor market impact of immigration. To generate exogenous variation in beliefs, we then … provide respondents in the treatment group with research evidence showing no adverse labor market impacts of immigration …
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In this paper we examine the empirical relationship between immigration and crime across Italian provinces during the … Italy. According to these estimates, immigration increases only the incidence of robberies and has no effect on all other …
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benefit from a substantive immigration policy that imposes selection criteria that are more in line with economic needs, the … substantial immigration into the European Union follows largely non-economic motives. This paper discusses the economic rationale … of a selective immigration policy and provides empirical evidence about the adverse effects of current selection …
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This paper investigates the effects of the 2015 mass inflow of refugees to Germany on electoral outcomes. Specifically, using unique data on refugee populations and their type of accommodation, I analyze how local exposure to refugees affects the outcomes of the March 2016 state election - an...
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). Our identification allows us to emphasize the role of immigrants' culture in estimating immigration's socio …-economic impact. Additionally, we distinguish between the labor demand and labor supply effects associated with immigration, which … enables us to reflect on the ambiguous labor market impact of immigration suggested in the existing literature. In particular …
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