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Research on crime in the late 20th century has consistently shown that immigrants have lower rates of involvement in … involved in crime. In 1904 prison commitment rates for more serious crimes were quite similar by nativity for all ages except …
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This paper investigates the link between violent crime and immigration using data from Colombian municipalities during … the recent episode of immigration from Venezuela. The key finding is that, following the closing and then re-opening of … the border in 2016, which precipitated a massive immigration wave, homicides in Colombia increased in areas close to the …
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Among 18-40 year old men in the United States, immigrants are less likely to be institutionalized than the native-born, and much less likely to be institutionalized than native-born men with similar demographic characteristics. Furthermore, earlier immigrants are more likely to be...
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We use 1980 and 1990 Census data for 119 larger Metropolitan Statistical Areas to examine the effect of skill-group specific immigrant inflows on the location decisions of natives in the same skill group, and on the overall distribution of human capital. To control for unobserved skill-group...
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An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … consensus that the impact of immigration on average native-born workers is small, and fails to substantiate claims of large …
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Historical accounts suggest that Jewish émigrés from Nazi Germany revolutionized U.S. science. To analyze the émigrés' effects on chemical innovation in the U.S. we compare changes in patenting by U.S. inventors in research fields of émigrés with fields of other German chemists. Patenting...
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