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Immigration in Europe : trends, policies and empirical evidence

Rica, Sara de la; Glitz, Albrecht; Ortega, Francesc - 2013

This chapter summarizes the main trends, policies and empirical evidence regarding immigration in Europe. We start by providing descriptive evidence on long-term immigration trends and current characteristics of the immigrant populations in various important European destination countries and...

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From refugees to citizens : labor market returns to naturalization

Fasani, Francesco; Frattini, Tommaso; Pirot, Maxime - 2023

citizen status allows refugees to close their gaps in labor market outcomes relative to non-refugee migrants while having non … Effect framework, showing that migrants with the lowest propensity to naturalize would benefit the most if they did. This … obtain citizenship, suggesting that a relaxation of eligibility constraints would yield benefits for both migrants and host …

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The impact of technological change on immigration and immigrants

Giesing, Yvonne - 2023

We study the effects of technological change on immigration flows as well as the labor market outcomes of migrants … highly automated economy and the main destination for migrants in Europe. We apply an instrumental variable strategy and … identify how robots decrease the wage of migrants across all skill groups, while neither having a significant impact on the …

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Ethnic Entrepreneurship and Assimilation

Horvath, Gergely; Zhang, Rui - 2019

We study the assimilation of ethnic minority individuals to the native labor market and the impact of integration policies on assimilation. In our model, ethnic individuals choose between 1. entrepreneurship, 2. assimilating to the native labor market, and 3. being employed by co-ethnic...

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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 potentially endogenous locational choices into account, and...

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Immigration, Cultural Distance and Natives' Attitudes Towards Immigrants : Evidence from Swiss Voting Results

Brunner, Beatrice - 2014

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Between fear mongers and Samaritans : does information provision affect attitudes towards the right of asylum in Germany?

Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian - 2020 - This version: 1 July 2020

We utilise information experiments embedded in a representative population survey to elicit the German public's attitude towards the right of asylum. We randomly assign the interviewees to different groups and 'treat' each group with different information about the asylum-seekers that came to...

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Between fear mongers and Samaritans : does information provision affect attitudes towards the right of asylum in Germany?

Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian - 2020 - This version: 1 July 2020

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Does information change attitudes towards immigrants? : representative evidence from survey experiments

Grigorieff, Alexis; Roth, Christopher; Ubfal, Diego - 2016

We study whether providing information about immigrants affects people's attitude towards them. First, we use a large representative cross-country experiment to show that, when people are told the share of immigrants in their country, they become less likely to state that there are too many of...

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Do immigrants ever oppose immigration?

Kaeser, Aflatun; Tani, Massimiliano - 2022

This paper analyses immigrants' views about immigration, filling an important void in the immigration literature. In particular, it explores the role of statistical discrimination as a cause of possible opposition to immigration in absence of stringent immigration policies and large volumes of...

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