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Immigration to the land of redistribution

Boeri, Tito - 2009

Negative perceptions about migrants in Europe, the Continent with the largest social policy programmes, are driven by … welfare access by migrants or further tighten migration policies. Are there politically feasible alternatives to these two … perceptions about migrants in Europe. Based on a simple model of the perceived fiscal effects of migration and on a largely …

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Electoral participation as a measure of social inclusion for natives, immigrants and descendants in Sweden

Bevelander, Pieter; Pendakur, Ravi - 2008

Three decades ago, Sweden extended municipal and county voting privileges to non-citizen residents arguing that it would increase political influence, interest and self-esteem among foreign citizens. Three decades later, electoral participation on the part of immigrants is perceived as being...

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Is it your foreign name or foreign qualifications? An experimental study of ethnic discrimination in hiring

Carlsson, Magnus; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2008

This paper contributes to the existing literature on ethnic discrimination of immigrants in hiring by addressing the central question of what employers act on in a job application. The method involved sending qualitatively identical resumes signalling belonging to different ethnic groups to...

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Educational mismatch: are high-skilled immigrants really working at high-skilled jobs and the price they pay if they aren't?

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines the incidence of the mismatch of the educational attainment and the occupation of employment, and the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male immigrants in the US labor market. Analyses for high-skilled adult male native-born workers are also...

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Perceptions and labor market outcomes of immigrants in Australia after 9/11

Goel, Deepti - 2009

I examine whether after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 Muslim immigrants and immigrants who fit the Muslim Arab stereotype in Australia perceive a greater increase in religious and racial intolerance and discrimination compared to other immigrant groups. I also examine whether there...

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Labour market status and migration dynamics

Bijwaard, Govert E. - 2009

Netherlands, which implies that all migrants are (self)-employed at the time of arrival. We find that many migrants leave the … the dynamics. Microsimulations of synthetic cohorts reveal that many migrants experience unemployment spells, but ten … only increase the unemployment among migrants but also departure from the country. Scenarios also indicate that an increase …

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Immigrant circulation and citizenship: hotel Canada?

DeVoretz, Don J. - 2009

Canada has experienced a unique problem as a subset of its immigrants, approximately 10%, leave after ascension to citizenship. In this paper I argue that both the degree of immigrant naturalization and subsequent emigration from Canada is conditioned by economic opportunities and Canadian...

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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...

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The working hours of immigrants in Germany: temporary versus permanent

Kahanec, Martin; Shields, Michael P. - 2010

Migration is often viewed as an investment decision. Temporary migrants can be expected to invest less in accumulating …, we explore how temporary migrants differ from permanent migrants in their labor supply decisions and behavior. Upon … correcting for endogeneity bias, temporary migrants are found to work more hours than permanent ones. This result supports the …

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Welfare usage in the U.S.: does immigrant birthplace and immigration status matter?

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth; Oyolola, Maharouf - 2009

The study of welfare participation in the U.S. prior to the 1996 welfare reform act and even afterward has focused on comparisons between native born and immigrant households. Analyses that have gone beyond this broad classification have focused on comparisons across race or with particular...

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