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The Effect of the 2016 United States Presidential Election on Employment Discrimination

Gorzig, Marina Mileo; Rho, Deborah - 2020

We examine whether employment discrimination increased after the 2016 presidential election in the United States. We submitted fictitious applications to publicly advertised positions using resumes that are manipulated on perceived race and ethnicity (Somali American, African American, and white...

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Macroeconomic Determinants of International Migration to the UK

Forte, Giuseppe; Portes, Jonathan - 2017

result in a large fall in immigration from EEA countries to the UK. …

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Fiscal Position of Immigrants in Europe: A Quantile Regression Approach

Joxhe, Majlinda; Scaramozzino, Pasquale; Zanaj, Skerdilajda - 2021

This paper compares the net fiscal position (NFP) of immigrants versus natives using data from the European Survey on Living Conditions (EU-SILC) for the period 2007-2015. By employing a quantile regression approach, we find that European and non-European migrants have a different fiscal...

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The Unintended Consequence of Stringent Immigration Enforcement on Staffing in Nursing Homes: Evidence from Secure Communities

Gunadi, Christian - 2023

examine the impact of Secure Communities, a major immigration enforcement program that was designed to check the immigration … baseline period. This finding suggests that stringent immigration enforcement may exacerbate the healthcare worker shortage in …

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Learning from the Origins

Yarkin, Alexander - 2023

How do political preferences and voting behaviors respond to information coming from abroad? Focusing on the international migration network, I document that opinion changes at the origins spill over to 1st- and 2nd-generation immigrants abroad. Local diasporas, social media, and family ties to...

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Labour Market Performance of Immigrants: New Evidence from Linked Administrative Data

Kaya, Ezgi - 2024

Using administrative data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings linked to the 2011 Census of England and Wales, this paper explores the labour market performance of first-generation immigrants and compares it to that of UK-born employees. By focusing on various labour market outcomes and...

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The Immigrant-Native Wage Gap in Germany Revisited

Ingwersen, Kai; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2019

This study provides new evidence on the levels of economic integration experienced by foreigners and naturalised immigrants relative to native Germans from 1994 to 2015. We decompose the wage gap using the method for unconditional quantile regression models by employing a regression of the...

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Who is in favor of immigration

Epstein, Gil S.; Katav-Herz, Shirit - 2019

the long-run viability of society as a whole. One possible solution is to permit more immigration, which will both … 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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Hate at first sight? Dynamic aspects of the electoral impact of migration: The case of Ukip

Levi, Eugenio; Mariani, Rama Dasi; Patriarca, Fabrizio - 2019

In this paper, we test the hypothesis that the causal effect of immigrant presence on anti-immigrant votes is a short-run effect. For this purpose, we consider a distributed lag model and adapt the standard instrumental variable approach proposed by Altonji and Card (1991) to a dynamic...

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Immigration Policy and Remittance Behaviour

Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Tchuente, Guy - 2017

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants …

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