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We estimate whether migration can be an equilibrating force in the labour market by comparing pre- and post …-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and the United States, and their association with asymmetric labour … measured population changes in Europe were due to migration for employment purposes - i.e. an upper-bound estimate - up to …
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changes as proxies for regional migration. Comparing the results with those for the United States and the European Union, the … regional shocks by adjusting up to a third of a regional non-employment shock through migration within two years. This is …
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how potential exposure to missionary activity impacts both English language proficiency and labor market earnings of male and female immigrants to the United States. Design/Methodology/Approach: This study uses the pooled files of the American...
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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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While there is a growing literature on the impact of climate and weather-related events on migration, little is known … environmental disasters. This paper uses state-level data on migration ows between Mexico and the U.S. from 1999 to 2012 to … investigate the mitigating impact of an agricultural cashtransfer program (PROCAMPO) and a disaster fund (Fonden) on the migration …
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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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affect the migration decisions of individuals, to the extent that those states approving same-sex marriage can be considered … less discriminatory. Results show that that legal reform permanently increased the migration flow of homosexuals moving to … driving our estimates since the migration flow of homosexuals is not limited to border or close states. Supplemental analysis …
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