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population that was characterised by a new predominance of non-European immigration.Despite this, average segregation levels …Analysing restricted access census data, this paper examines the long-term trends of immigrant segregation in France …
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Ethnic groups tend to agglomerate and assemble, mostly in urban areas. While ethnic clustering is critically debated in societies and the consequences for economic outcomes are under debate in research, the process is not yet well understood. A separate literature has also examined the cultural...
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To our knowledge, no study has examined the effect of immigration on the health of older natives. We use the Study of … Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether immigration affects depression among natives 65 …-80 years old. Immigration may increase the supply and lower the price of personal and household services, a term that refers to …
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Economic theory suggests that selective immigration policies based on observable characteristics will affect … components of migrant quality in Australia, a high-migrant share OECD country with a selective immigration policy. We proxy …-generation immigrants outperform natives on socially-beneficial personality traits. While first-generation migrants suffer language …
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Using the universe of individual asylum cases in the United States from 2000-2004 and a difference-in-differences research design, we test whether Sept. 11, 2001 decreased the likelihood that applicants from Muslim-majority countries were granted asylum. Our estimates suggest that the attacks...
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migrated to the West after reunification. These migrants grew up with very high rates of maternal employment, whereas West …
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We aim to identify winners and losers of a sudden inflow of low-skilled immigrants using a general equilibrium search and matching model in which employees, either native or nonnative, are heterogeneous with respect to their skill level and produce different types of goods. We estimate the...
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data and exploit exogenous variation in both immigration flows and diversity induced by former settlements, WWI and the … 1920s Immigration Acts. We find that co-ethnic networks play an important role in attracting immigrant inventors. However … become major receivers of migrant flows and, in a long-term perspective, have started thinking about immigration in terms of …
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This paper develops and estimates a joint hazard-longitudinal (JHL) model of the timing of migration and labor market assimilation – two processes that have been assumed to be independent in the existing literature. The JHL model accounts for the endogenous age of entry in estimating the...
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This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining country of origin differences in divorce rates of immigrants in the United States. Because childhood-arriving immigrants are all exposed to a common set of US laws and institutions, we interpret relationships...
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