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authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that immigration significantly increases crime. The crime impact of immigration …
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social outcomes are not well understood. We develop a novel index of ethnic segregation that takes both ethnic and spatial …
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This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ …
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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 … inflow of migrants. Disentangling those flows by type of migrants, we find that the mitigation effect is due mostly to …
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constant inflation. This change has been more pronounced than elsewhere. We argue that this stems from the immigration boom in … Spain over this period. We show that the New Keynesian Phillips curve is shifted by immigration if natives' and immigrants … immigration …
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This paper investigates how the size of co-ethnic networks at the time of arrival affect the economic success of immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between initial network size and long-run immigrant outcomes....
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terrorist attacks against foreigners in their host country. High skilled migrants are associated with a significantly lower risk … of terror compared to low skilled ones, while there is no significant difference between male and female migrants …
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The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many – if not most – migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
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In this paper, we decompose body mass index (BMI) differences between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany for women and men. We focus on isolating the part of BMI differences that can be explained by differences in observed socioeconomic status from the part attributable to...
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We use census data on 26 Swiss cantons to determine the association of educational institutions with the intergenerational transmission of education. We test whether education transmission is higher when children enter kindergarten and school earlier and when tracking occurs at a later age. In...
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