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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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affects the attitudes of its members towards immigration. Hence, an aging social environment exerts an effect on the attitudes … of individuals towards immigration after accounting for their age and other individual characteristics. We test this … "societal population aging" is the old-age dependency ratio. "Attitudes" are taken from immigration related questions in eight …
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preferences over immigration. Using data from the European Social Survey from 2014 and 2015, our results document that individual … norms and values strongly shape preferences over immigration, even when controlling for expected costs and benefits from … immigration. In particular, we find that altruistic attitudes significantly raise the support for all types of immigration while …
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We propose an immigration policy based on the model of cooperatives. Incoming migrants have to acquire a participation … seekers get back the money paid for the certificate. Immigration is therewith regulated more efficiently than today. Not all … entrance barriers and coercive measures to prevent illegal entry would disappear. However, the pressure of illegal migrants is …
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Immigration has become one of the most divisive political issues in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and … several other Western countries. We estimate the impact of immigration on voting for far-left and far-right candidates in … immigration flows by past settlement patterns in 1968. We find that immigration increases support for far-right candidates and has …
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Can political leaders change constituents' beliefs? If so, is it rhetoric, identity, or the interaction of the two that matters? We construct a large-scale experiment where participants are exposed to anti-immigrant and pro-immigrant speeches from both Presidents Obama and Trump. We benchmark...
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traditionally. These results are robust to controls for immigration cohort, years since migration, and other own and spouse …
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. Discussing the ways in which refugees and economic migrants are differently selected and so might be expected to perform … migrants. While the gaps between the groups can be seen to decrease on a timescale of a decade or two, this is more pronounced …
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Large-scale immigration waves can have adverse effects on physical and mental health of the natives. We investigate the … that immigration may adversely affects the mental health of natives. The adverse effects, however, are conditioned by the … Justice and Development Party (AKP) of president Erdoğan. At the individual level, we observe adverse effects of immigration …
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find a significant left-bias of second generation migrants relative to observationally identical natives, similar in …
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