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Bailey, Michael - 2016

We document that the recent house price experiences within an individual's social network affect her perceptions of the attractiveness of property investments, and through this channel have large effects on her housing market activity. Our data combine anonymized social network information from...

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Returns to Citizenship? Evidence from Germany's Recent Immigration Reforms

Gathmann, Christina - 2014

liberal access to citizenship improves the economic integration of immigrants. Our analysis relies on two major immigration …

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The Propagation of Regional Shocks in Housing Markets : Evidence from Oil Price Shocks in Canada

Kilian, Lutz - 2018

Shocks to the demand for housing that originate in one region may seem important only for that regional housing market. We provide evidence that such shocks can also affect housing markets in other regions. Our analysis focuses on the response of Canadian housing markets to oil price shocks. We...

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Renewed Momentum in the German Housing Market : Boom or Bubble?

Chen, Xi - 2013

The renewed momentum in the German housing market has led to concerns that Germany is vulnerable to asset price shocks. In this paper, we apply recently developed recursive unit root tests to detect the beginning and the end of potential speculative bubbles in Germany over the sample period...

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Not so Myopic Consumers - Evidence on Capitalization of Energy Technologies in a Housing Market

Harjunen, Oskari - 2014

Policies affecting the cost of energy use provide correct incentives for technology choices only if there is a market reward for energy efficiency. We provide clean evidence for market efficiency by considering how heating technologies capitalize into house values using detailed Finnish register...

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Immigration, Attitudes and the Rise of the Political Right : The Role of Cultural and Economic Concerns Over Immigration

Davis, Lewis - 2016

With the rise of the far-right parties in the European parliamentary elections, concerns over immigration and national … identity have again come into the limelight. In this paper, we document the empirical relationships between immigration, native … concerns over the economic and cultural impact of immigration, and the rise of right-wing political parties in Europe …

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Minimum Wages and the Labor Market Effects of Immigration

Edo, Anthony - 2017

state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects … of immigration on labor market outcomes of native workers within a given state-skill cell are more negative in U … immigration as well as state minimum wages, and to implementing a difference-in-differences strategy comparing U.S. States where …

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Should Immigrants Culturally Assimilate or Preserve Their Own Culture? Individual Beliefs and the Longevity of National Identity

Grajzl, Peter - 2017

We develop and empirically test a theory concerning individual beliefs about whether immigrants should culturally assimilate into the host society or preserve their own cultural norms. We argue that when national identity is a source of intrinsic utility, the longevity of national identity...

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The Effect of Language Training on Immigrants' Economic Integration - Empirical Evidence from France

Lochmann, Alexia - 2017

migrants and refugees relative to family migrants, for men and individuals below the median age, and for individuals with …

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The Changing Structure of Immigration to the OECD : What Welfare Effects on Member Countries?

Burzynski, Michal - 2018

We investigate the welfare implications of two pre-crisis immigration waves (1991–2000 and 2001–2010) and of the post … channels of transmission of immigration shocks – the employment and wage effects, the fiscal effect, and the market size effect …-country heterogeneity in the economic benefits from immigration …

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