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Restrictive Immigration Policies and Latino Immigrant Identity in the United States

Massey, Douglas; Sánchez, Magaly Sánchez R. - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009

The United States is presently characterized by rising anti-immigrant sentiment, repressive immigration enforcement …

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Processes of Migration in Latin America and the Caribbean (1950-2008)

Durand, Jorge - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009

The main characteristic of the Latin American migration on the 20th century was the change of flow. Until the 1950s, Latin America received migrants from Europe and the Middle East. As a result of economic change, political instability, and economic crisis, Latin America started exporting...

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Precarious Residents: Migration Control, Membership and the Rights of Non-Citizens

Gibney, Matthew - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009

immigration status. The archetypal precarious resident is the undocumented (or unlawful) migrant. However, there are many other …

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Culture: Persistence and Evolution

Giavazzi, Francesco; Petkov, Ivan; Schiantarelli, Fabio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper presents evidence on the speed of evolution (or lack thereof) of a wide range of values and beliefs of different generations of European immigrants to the US. The main result is that persistence differs greatly across cultural attitudes. Some, for instance deep personal religious...

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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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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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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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Costs and benefits of labor mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries : the case of Poland

Duszczyk, Maciej; Góra, Marek; Kaczmarczyk, Paweł - 2013

Poland is a country being exposed to emigration and immigration flows relatively recently. That, among others, results … shows moderate positive impact of immigration fitting demand mostly in agriculture, construction and household services. We … analyse an impact of immigration on the domestic labour market in Poland. The immigrants fill gaps existing due to relatively …

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Do immigrants bring good health?

Giuntella, Osea; Mazzonna, Fabrizio - 2014

This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. We merge information on individual characteristics from the … longitudinal component of the data to analyze how immigration affects the health of both immigrants and natives over time …. Our results suggest that immigration reduces residents' likelihood to report negative health outcomes by improving their …

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Immigration, cultural distance and natives' attitudes towards immigrants : evidence from Swiss voting results

Brunner, Beatrice; Kuhn, Andreas - 2014

We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate … the effect of immigration on natives' attitudes towards immigration. We apply an instrumental variable approach to take … anti-immigration votes, while the presence of culturally similar immigrants does not affect natives' voting behavior at all …

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