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Jobs, Crime, and Votes: A Short-run Evaluation of the Refugee Crisis in Germany

Gehrsitz, Markus; Ungerer, Martin - 2017

. Yet, little is known about the impact of this inflow on labor markets, crime, and voting behavior. This article uses …

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Understanding the Effects of Legalizing Undocumented Immigrants

Monras, Joan; Vázquez-Grenno, Javier; Elias Moreno, Ferran - 2017

immigrants, which suggests that newly legalized immigrants probably earned lower wages than, and maybe affected the labor …-market outcomes of, other workers. We estimate that the policy change deteriorated the labor-market outcomes of some low … shows the importance of looking both at public revenue data and the labor market to understand the consequences of amnesty …

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Does employment protection help immigrants? Evidence from European labor markets

Sá, Filipa - 2008

employment level. Immigrants, being new to the labor market, may be less aware of employment protection regulations and less …

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Australia Farewell: Predictors of Emigration in the 2000s

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hahn, Markus; Hall, Matthew; … - 2016

The factors leading individuals to immigrate to developed nations are widely studied, but comparatively less is known about those who emigrate from them. In this paper, we use data from a nationally representative cohort of Australian adults to develop longitudinal measures of emigration and to...

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Is There a Tradeoff between Ethnic Diversity and Redistribution? The Case of Income Assistance in Canada

Green, David A.; Riddell, W. Craig - 2019

Numerous studies conclude that ethnic/cultural/racial diversity has negative impacts on interpersonal trust and support for redistributive social programs. Although some Canadian public opinion data is consistent with this view, whether these impacts on public opinion are important enough to...

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Trainspotting: "Good Jobs", Training and Skilled Immigration

Mountford, Andrew; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2019

affect the sectoral allocation of labor and how it may have a positive or negative effect on the training and social mobility …

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Population Growth, Immigration and Labour Market Dynamics

Elsby, Michael; Smith, Jennifer C.; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2021

This paper examines the role of population flows on labour market dynamics across immigrant and native-born populations in the United Kingdom. Population flows are large, and cyclical, driven first by the maturation of baby boom cohorts in the 1980s, and latterly by immigration in the 2000s. New...

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Exposure to Past Immigration Waves and Attitudes toward Newcomers

Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2022

How does previous exposure to massive immigrant inflows affect concerns about current immigration and the integration of refugees? To answer this question, we investigate attitudes toward newcomers among natives and previous immigrants. In areas that in the 1990s received higher inflows of...

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Immigrants Assimilate as Communities, Not Just as Individuals

Hatton, Timothy J.; Leigh, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

There is a large econometric literature that examines the economic assimilation of immigrants in the United States and elsewhere. On the whole immigrants are seen as atomistic individuals assimilating in a largely anonymous labour market, a view that runs counter to the spirit of the equally...

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The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Male Wages: Theory and Evidence from Britain

Manacorda, Marco; Manning, Alan; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

the wages of native-born workers in the UK have failed to find any significant effect. This is something of a puzzle since Card and Lemieux, (2001) have shown that changes in the relative supply of educated natives do seem to have measurable effects on the wage structure. This paper offers a...

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