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Migration and social preferences
Mariño Fages, Diego; Morales Cerda, Matías - In: Economics letters 218 (2022), pp. 1-4
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Labour migrant adjustments in the aftermath of the financial crisis
Bratsberg, Bernt; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Røed, Knut - 2014
European labour immigrants to Norway for a period of up to eight years after entry. We find that the migrants were particularly … after the crisis. Although we find that negative labour demand shocks raise the probability of return migration, the … majority of the labour migrants directly affected by the downturn stayed in Norway and claimed unemployment insurance benefits. …
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The social preferences of the native inhabitants, and the decision how many asylum seekers to admit
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin; Szczygielski, Krzysztof - 2019
We consider a tax-funded policy of admitting and integrating asylum seekers in a country in which the incomes of the native inhabitants are differentiated; for the sake of simplicity, we assume that there are just two groups of native inhabitants: high-income natives and low-income natives. As a...
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Integration as a catalyst for assimilation
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2013
We draw a distinction between the social integration and economic assimilation of migrants, and study an interaction … between the two. We define social integration as blending into the host countryś society, and economic assimilation as … optimal to acquire a relatively limited quantity of human capital; with fellow migrants constituting his only comparison group …
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and … measurement challenges. While health is part of human capital, health assimilation is the mirror image of earnings assimilation …
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and … measurement challenges. While health is part of human capital, health assimilation is the mirror image of earnings assimilation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119651
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Immigration and redistribution
Concannon, Jeff; Elsner, Benjamin - 2020
One of the fundamental questions in the social sciences is whether modern welfare states can be sustained as countries welcome more immigrants. On theoretical grounds, the relationship between immigration and support for redistribution is ambiguous. Immigration may increase ethnic diversity,...
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Immigration and redistribution
Elsner, Benjamin; Concannon, Jeff - 2020
One of the fundamental questions in the social sciences is whether modern welfare states can be sustained as countries welcome more immigrants. On theoretical grounds, the relationship between immigration and support for redistribution is ambiguous. Immigration may increase ethnic diversity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290615
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Where do migrants from countries ridden by environmental conflict settle? : On the scale, selection and sorting of conflict-induced migration
Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Schmid, Lena - 2019
Environmentally induced conflicts can trigger migration. This paper analyzes the location decisions of migrants, i … conflict. In addition to (transport-related) migration costs, migration governance shapes the sorting pattern of migrants ….e., the "sorting" of migrants into alternative destinations. We argue that this sorting depends on a variety of factors. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012053203
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Income redistribution and self-selection of immigrants
Corneo, Giacomo; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2019
level covariates, migration costs, and when testing for stochastic dominance of the skill distributions of migrants and …We analyze the effects of governmental redistribution of income on migration patterns,using an Italian administrative … redistribution receive a negative selection of Italian migrants. This holds true after accounting for many individual and country …
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