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June 2012, DACA-eligible immigrants were less likely to live with their parents or in multigenerational households (-12 …
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in the share of immigrant children between different grade levels within schools is exploited to identify the impact of … immigrant peers. I find that exposure to immigrant children has dissimilar effects on native students' achievements across the …
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Recent studies suggest that migrants may be less satisfied with their "new" lives than members of the host population …
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Considerable research attention has been devoted to the question of whether and to what extent changes in welfare policy legislated in the 1990s might have deterred immigrant participation in welfare programs, although only post-1996 immigrants were explicitly targeted by most of the changes....
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In this paper, we study the evolution of cognitive and noncognitive skills gaps for children of immigrants between … kindergarten and 5th grade. We find some evidence that children of immigrants begin school with lower math scores than children of … natives, but this gap disappears in later elementary school. For noncognitive skills, children of immigrants and children of …
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of redistributive policies are affected by poverty and immigration. We find that while information about poverty has no … response to both poverty and immigration, while low income respondents desire less public expenditure on education due to … immigration. These heterogeneities suggest that understanding the relationship between immigration, poverty and demand for …
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This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased in Sweden in the 1990's. We find that immigrants use welfare to a greater extent...
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Social assistance receipt among immigrants in relation to receipt among natives in Sweden is investigated. A background of how the system is constructed is provided, statistical information reported, the literature surveyed and key results interpreted. Most out-payment for social assistance in...
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