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After the end of World War II in 1945, millions of refugees arrived in what in 1949 became the Federal Republic of Germany. We examine their effect on today's productivity, wages, income, rents, education, and population density at the municipality level. Our identification strategy is based on...
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Exploiting a large French panel for 1976-2007, we examine the impact of low-educated immigration on the labour market … immigration. Low-educated immigration generally lowers the wages of blue-collar workers, but its impact is heterogeneous across …
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Integration of immigrants is a two-way process involving immigrants and the host country society. An underexplored question is how events of xenophobic violence in the host country affect the integration of immigrants. For this purpose, I exploit a unique series of anti-immigrant attacks in the...
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Using Norwegian administrative data, we examine how exposure to immigration over the past decades has affected natives …' earnings rank. By exploiting variation in immigration patterns over time across commuting zones, we find that immigration from …, whereas immigration from high‐income countries has leveled it. Given the large inflow of immigrants from low-income countries …
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earnings across immigration classes and categories of Canadians at birth. Adult immigrants, including those assessed by the …
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Destination countries are progressively shifting towards selective immigration policies. These can effectively increase … migrants' average education even if one allows for endogenous schooling decisions and education policies at origin. Still, more … selective immigration policies reduce social welfare at origin …
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the effect of immigration on trade when the immigrants consume more of the goods that are abundant in their home country … than the natives in a standard Heckscher-Ohlin model and find that the effect of immigration on trade is a priori …
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cohort (made possible by the data for the first time since 1961), black immigration from Africa and the Americas, skin …, and that immigration, by introducing accomplished black immigrants from Africa (notably via the visa lottery), threatens …
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Using a state panel based on census data from 1940-2010, I examine the impact of immigration on the high school …
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some studies suggesting that migrants are miserable in their new locations. Observational studies are potentially biased by … the self-selection of migrants so a natural experiment is used to compare successful and unsuccessful applicants to a …
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