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How Do Immigrants Promote Exports? Networks, Knowledge, Diversity

Orefice, Gianluca; Rapoport, Hillel; Santoni, Gianluca - 2021

How does immigration affect export performance? To answer this question we propose a unified empirical framework …

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The Role of Human Capital in Structural Change and Growth in an Open Economy : Innovative and Absorptive Capacity Effects

Bye, Brita; Fæhn, Taran - 2021

Since the financial crisis in 2008, slow growth has riddled Europe and the Covid-19 pandemic is amplifying the challenge. Promoting economic growth and transforming to a more knowledge-based industrial structure will be high on the agenda for the coming decades. We study how more and better...

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Justice Delayed is Assimilation Denied : Rightwing Terror, Fear and Social Assimilation of Turkish Immigrants in Germany

Deole, Sumit S. - 2018

In 2011, German police accidentally stumbled upon a previously unknown right-wing extremist group called the National Socialist Underground (NSU). Further investigations implicated the group in previously unexplained murders of mostly ethnically Turkish individuals and in other crimes targeting...

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Can Job Search Assistance Improve the Labour Market Integration for Refugees? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Battisti, Michele - 2019

We conducted a field experiment to evaluate the impact of job-search assistance on the employment of recently arrived refugees in Germany. The treatment group received job-matching support: an NGO identified suitable vacancies and sent the refugees' CVs to employers. Results of follow-up phone...

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Decomposing Migrant Self-Selection : Education, Occupation, and Unobserved Abilities

Kauppinen, Ilpo; Poutvaara, Panu - 2023

We analyze self-selection and sorting of emigrants from Finland, using full-population administrative data from Statistics Finland. We analyze emigration events lasting at least five years and decompose migrant self-selection into education, occupation, and unobserved abilities. Our analysis...

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When Immigrants Meet Exporters : A Reassessment of the Immigrant Wage Gap

Marchal, Léa; Ourens, Guzmán; Sabbadini, Giulia - 2022

gap varies with the export intensity of the firm and the occupation of the worker. A model with heterogeneous firms and … supports this mechanism. First, we show that the wage gap is positively correlated with the complexity of the firm export … activity. Second, we show that wages react to changes in export intensity when the export destination coincides with the origin …

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Immigrants as Future Voters

Hillman, Arye L.; Long, Ngo Van - 2021

Immigration policies in western democracies have often been contrary to the policies predicted by the mainstream theory of international economics. In particular, political parties that, according to economic theory, should adopt policies beneficial for lower-income voter-constituencies, have...

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Does Labor Protection Increase Support for Immigration? Evidence from Switzerland

Bächli, Mirjam; Tsankova, Teodora - 2021

What affects native support for immigration? At a time of rising anti-immigration sentiments, this is a question raised by both academics and policy makers. We study the role of labor protection in shaping native preferences over migration policies. We look at Swiss national votes which took...

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Labor Market Concerns and Support for Immigration

Haaland, Ingar - 2020

Do labor market concerns affect support for immigration? Using a large, representative sample of the US population, we first elicit beliefs about the labor market impact of immigration. To generate exogenous variation in beliefs, we then provide respondents in the treatment group with research...

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Do Immigrants Affect Crime? Evidence from Panel Data for Germany

Maghularia, Rita - 2019

The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German administrative districts between 2003 and 2016. Employing different standard panel estimation methods, we show that there is no positive association between the immigrant rate and the crime...

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