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The population literature in theoretical economics has long focused on attempts to avoid the repugnant conclusion. We … advance the literature by proving that no social ordering in population economics can escape the repugnant conclusion in all …
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By exploiting a commuting policy that led to a sharp and unexpected inflow of Czech workers to areas along the German-Czech border, we examine the impact of an exogenous immigration-induced labor supply shock on local wages and employment of natives. On average, the supply shock leads to a...
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enlarged-EU migrants on the native population, the paper concludes with a discussion on lessons learned. …
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historically significant decline in the growth rate of the U.S. foreign born population since 2000. A decomposition shows that … Population Ratio reveals a 13% larger decline since 2000 than is shown when conventionally measured. …
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Population ageing affects most countries, especially developed ones. The elderly have increased in number as a result … increase the labor force and broaden the tax base. Increasing immigration has a variety of effects on the local population … attractiveness of immigration as a solution to population ageing. This paper examines immigration as a solution to the problem of …
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Population Survey extracts in 1980, specific to Miami but unrelated to the Boatlift. We also show that conflicting findings on …
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We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search frictions, wage bargaining, and a redistributive welfare state. Our quantitative analysis suggests that, in all 20 countries studied, immigration attenuates the effects of...
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We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...
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register data on individuals for the year of 2007 for the entire Swedish population we have in this study a unique opportunity …
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This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...
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