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Immigration, Regional Conditions, and Crime: Evidence from an Allocation Policy in Germany

Piopiunik, Mark; Ruhose, Jens - CESifo - 2015

authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that immigration significantly increases crime. The crime impact of immigration …

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Substitution Between Individual and Source Country Characteristics: Social Capital, Culture, and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence - CESifo - 2015

Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of...

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Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - CESifo - 2015

is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an …

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Does Early Educational Tracking Increase Migrant-Native Achievement Gaps? Differences-In-Differences Evidence Across Countries

Ruhose, Jens; Schwerdt, Guido - CESifo - 2015

We study whether early tracking of students based on ability increases migrant-native achievement gaps. To eliminate confounding impacts of unobserved country traits, we employ a differences-in-differences strategy that exploits international variation in the age of tracking as well as student...

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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel. Effects of Religiosity, Ethnicity, and War

Praag, Bernard M.S. Van; Romanov, Dmitri; … - CESifo - 2010

We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social Survey (2006). We are especially interested in the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and...

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Indian Entrepreneurial Success in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom

Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A.; … - CESifo - 2013

Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census data from the three largest developed countries receiving Indian immigrants in the world -- the United States, United Kingdom and Canada -- we examine the performance of Indian...

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State Dependence in Welfare Receipt: Transitions Before and After a Reform

Riphahn, Regina T.; Wunder, Christoph - CESifo - 2013

We study state dependence in welfare receipt and investigate whether welfare transitions changed after a welfare reform. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we apply dynamic multinomial logit estimators and find that state dependence in welfare receipt is not a central feature of...

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Migration Background and Educational Tracking: Is there a Double Disadvantage for Second-Generation Immigrants?

Lüdemann, Elke; Schwerdt, Guido - CESifo - 2010

Research on immigrants’ educational disadvantages largely focuses on differences in student achievement tests. Exploiting data from the German PIRLS extension, we find that second-generation immigrants face additional disadvantages with respect to grades and teacher recommendations for...

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Politics, Unemployment, and the Enforcement of Immigration Law

Makowsky, Michael D.; Stratmann, Thomas - CESifo - 2012

Immigration control-related audits and their resulting sanctions are not solely determined by impartial enforcement of … congressional oversight, i.e., legislative involvement, determines the bureaucratic immigration enforcement process. We examine the … union membership, correlate to bureaucratic decisions made at every stage of immigration enforcement. …

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Dutch Disease and the Mitigation Effect of Migration: Evidence from Canadian Provinces

Beine, Michel; Coulombe, Serge; Vermeulen, Wessel N. - CESifo - 2012

This paper looks at whether immigration can mitigate the Dutch disease effects associated with booms in natural …, we test for the existence of a mitigating effect of immigration in terms of an increase in the size of the non … immigration. Nevertheless, interprovincial migration also results in a spreading effect of Dutch disease from booming to non …

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