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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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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 …
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For most people, buying a home is their single largest financial commitment. Previous research shows that Chinese buyers pay less for homes with unlucky addresses and more for homes with lucky addresses. Using Singapore data on housing transactions combined with a plethora of individual buyer...
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postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities … immigration …
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We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas … suggest that care should be exercised when applying this method as inaccurate impressions of the impact of immigration on …
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This paper examines the impact of the immigration of foreigners on domestic labour mobility. Since David Card's seminal … where migrants tend to cluster. In this paper we reconcile the existing evidence by taking another route. We analyze whether … the immigration of foreigners replaces domestic mobility from poor to rich regions. We focus on Italy, which is …
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This paper analyzes wage assimilation of ethnic German immigrants to Germany. We use unique administrative data that include a standardized measure of immigrants' pre-migration wage based on occupation, industry, tenure, qualification, and the German wage structure. We find that immigrants...
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mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (CHT) in the U.S. labor market. Since 1990, relative wages of CHT migrants have been … education. Rising U.S.-earned degrees by CHT migrants can account for this relatively successful economic assimilation. Cohort … analysis shows that the economic performance of CHT migrants admitted to the U.S. has been improving, even allowing for the …
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The objective of this paper is to analyse and explain the factors behind the observed differences in skill mismatches (vertical and horizontal) between natives and immigrants in EU countries. Using microdata from the 2007 wave of the Adult Education Survey (AES), different probit models are...
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We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate … the effect of immigration on natives' attitudes towards immigration. We apply an instrumental variable approach to take … anti-immigration votes, while the presence of culturally similar immigrants does not affect natives' voting behavior at all …
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