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The rationality behind immigration preferences

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - 2003

of immigration? Does social interaction affect this preference or is the immigration preference completely in line with … immigration than the highly educated. Experience with foreigners arising from social contact matters in positively appreciating … significant effect on the evaluation of the number of foreigners present. The biggest effect on immigration preferences is …

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What institutions help immigrants integrate?

Huber, Peter - 2015

, only important in selecting migrants with high employment probabilities and migration policy variables remain unimportant …

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Labor market integration of new immigrants in Spain

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Nollenberger, Natalia - 2014

This paper assesses how new immigrants to Spain fare in the country's labor market, evaluating the conditions under which they are able to find employment, and their progress out of unskilled work into middle-skilled jobs. Using Spanish Labor Force Survey data from 2000 through 2011, we find...

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Does immigration decrease far-right popularity? : evidence from Finnish municipalities

Lonsky, Jakub - 2020

Across Europe, far-right parties have made significant electoral gains in recent years. Their anti-immigration stance … immigration on voting for the far-right Finns Party on a local level. Exploiting a convenient setup for a shift-share instrument … at the municipality level. The far-right votes lost to immigration are captured by the two pro-immigration parties …

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International students, immigration and earnings growth : the effect of a pre-immigration host-country university education

Hou, Feng; Lu, Yuqian - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 7 (2017) 5, pp. 1-24

-educated immigrants are a highly heterogeneous group, and the key factor differentiating their post-immigration earnings from the earnings … experience before immigration added only a small or no earnings gain after immigration for Canadian-educated immigrants. …

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The effect of attitudes toward migrants on migrant skill composition

Avdiu, Besart - 2017

I investigate the effect of attitudes toward migrants on the average skill composition of immigrants in destination … countries. A model is presented showing that negative attitudes toward migrants in general can reduce the average skill … attitudes. I use survey data on attitudes toward migrants as well as data on migrant stocks by education level and origin …

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Settlement and migration patterns among immigrants in Norway

Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - 2014

The immigration to Norway has increased strongly since the turn of the millennium and especially since the eastward EU … their reason of immigration. The immigration has changed from a gender balance during the first years of the 2000 towards a … clear male dominance after 2005, mostly due to increased labour immigration. The immigration has changed from a dominance of …

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Labor market assimilation and the self-employment decision of immigrant entrepreneurs

Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999

This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment...

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Do high-skilled immigrants find jobs faster than low-skilled immigrants? : conference paper

Hochfellner, Daniela; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2014 - Preliminary version: 27th February 2014

This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We … empirical evidence by studying the labour-market integration process of Ethnic Germans, one of the largest immigration groups in …

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Labor market integration of new immigrants in Spain

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Nollenberger, Natalia - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 4, pp. 1-15

Immigrants' employment status has worsened during the Great Recession in Spain. How much of this worsening is due to the recession, and how much to a composition effect? Using Spanish Labor Force Survey data from 2000 through 2011, we compare the employment trajectories of different cohorts of...

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