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concerned about immigration to Germany by around six percentage points (20 percent). Furthermore, our findings imply significant … spillovers from maternal education to immigration attitudes of her offspring. While we find no evidence for returns to education …
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This article examines the causal relations between non-European immigration and the characteristics of the housing … account GDP per capita and the unemployment rate as the main regional economic indicators. We find that immigration has no … significant effect on property prices, but that higher property prices significantly reduce immigration rates. We also find no …
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This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household panel from 1984 to 2014. We incorporate the possibility of wage divergence into a two-period model of economic assimilation by modeling the differences in the efficiency of human...
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This paper examines the short-run immigration effects on prices for owner-occupied housing and rents in Switzerland … Union (EU), enacted in 2002, as an exogenous shock to immigration. The first approach uses the AFMP reform within an …, distinguishing between regions with historically high, medium, and low immigration from EU-15 countries. The analysis based on data …
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exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental variable estimation. In our sample of recent immigrants, linear …
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We provide the first solid evidence that Chinese superstitious beliefs can have significant effects on house prices in a North American market with a large immigrant population. Using real estate data on close to 117,000 house sales, we find that houses with address number ending in four are...
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This paper investigates how a reform allowing immigrants with children in France access to public housing during the 1970s influenced their initial location choices across local labour markets. We find that cities with higher public housing supplies have a large "magnetic effect" on the location...
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towards nationalism. One major concern is the impact of immigration on housing. We assemble a comprehensive database of 474 … estimates of immigration's impact on house prices in 14 destination countries and find that immigration increases house prices …
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Is there a local economic impact of immigration? Immigration pushes up rents and housing values in US destination …. I use instrumental variables based on a "shift-share" of national levels of immigration into metropolitan areas. An … immigration inflow equal to 1% of a city's population is associated with increases in average rents and housing values of about 1 …
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This article studies the effect of immigration on house prices in the UK. It finds that immigration has a negative … population. Natives respond to immigration by moving to different areas and those who leave are at the top of the wage … immigration on house prices is driven by local areas where immigrants have lower education. -- immigration ; house prices …
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