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Hoen, Maria F.; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2018

Using Norwegian administrative data, we examine how exposure to immigration over the past decades has affected natives' relative prime age labor market outcomes by social class background. Social class is established on the basis of parents' earnings rank. By exploiting variation in immigration...

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Immigration and electoral support for the far-left and the far-right

Edo, Anthony; Giesing, Yvonne; Öztunc, Jonathan; … - 2018

Immigration has become one of the most divisive political issues in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and several other Western countries. We estimate the impact of immigration on voting for far-left and far-right candidates in France, using panel data on presidential elections from...

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Ethnosizing Immigrants : A Theoretical Framework

Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler-Cohen, Odelia - 2015

Recently, Constant, Gataullina, and Zimmermann (2009) established a new method to measure ethnic identity which they called the "ethnosizer". Using information on an individual's language, culture, social interactions, history of migration, and ethnic self-identification, the method classifies...

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Priming Attitudes Towards Immigrants : Implications for Migration Research and Survey Design

Dylong, Patrick; Setzepfand, Paul; Uebelmesser, Silke - 2023

Using data from two representative and large-scale population surveys with more than 4000 participants, we investigate the effect of randomized priming interventions on attitudes towards immigrants. We document robust null effects of these interventions under two experimental settings, across...

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Priming attitudes towards immigrants : implications for migration research and survey design

Dylong, Patrick; Setzepfand, Paul; Übelmesser, Silke - 2023

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Are immigrants favorably self-selected? : an economic analysis

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000

This paper explores the theoretical issues and the empirical literature regarding the selectivity of migrants. Although … theoretical analysis indicates a tendency toward the favorable self-selection (supply) of migrants for labor market success. The … be expected to be less intense for non-economic migrants, such as refugees, tied movers and ideological migrants, and for …

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Weight, stigma, and attitudes toward immigrants

Fazio, Andrea; Giaccherini, Matilde - 2024

Building on social identity theory, we suggest that natives from stereotyped groups tend to value cultural distance …

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Network formations among immigrants and natives

Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - 2009

In this paper we examine possible network formations among immigrants and natives with endogenous investment. We consider a model of a network formation where the initiator of the link bears its cost while both agents benefit from it. We present the model by considering possible interactions...

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Parametric and semiparametric estimation in models with misclassified categorical dependent variables

Dustmann, Christian - 2000

We consider both a parametric and a semiparametric method to account for classification errors on the dependent variable in an ordered response model. The methods are applied to the analysis of self-reported speaking fluency of male immigrants in Germany. We find that a parametric model which...

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Heterogeneous firms and substitution by tasks : the productivity effect of migrants : paper prepared for the ERSA Congress 21- 25 August 2012, Bratislava

Haas, Anette; Lucht, Michael - 2012

an aggregate level. Especially the role of imperfect substitutability of migrants and natives gained importance. A new … workers: migrants are heavily concentrated in agglomerations and work in different jobs than natives do. This gives an … levels and two types of jobs for migrants and natives. Firms differ in the ability to employ migrants which gives rise to …

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