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The Economic Assimilation of Irish Famine Migrants to the United States

Collins, William J. - 2018

The repeated failure of Ireland's potato crop in the late 1840s led to a major famine and a surge in migration to the … associated with less upward mobility. Our results contribute to literatures on immigrant assimilation, refugee migration, and the … Age of Mass Migration …

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Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection : Evidence from Europe

D’Amuri, Francesco - 2011

In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on native jobs in fourteen Western European countries. We test whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational distribution of natives with similar education and age. We...

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Mpc Heterogeneity in Europe : Sources and Policy Implications

Ampudia, Miguel - 2018

This paper studies the implications of household financial choices for the effects of monetary policy on consumption. Based on data from four major euro area countries, the paper estimates the key structural parameters using a simulated method of moments approach to match moments related to...

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The Measurement of Wealth : Recessions, Sustainability and Inequality

Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2015

This paper considers two central problems in our statistical frameworks which impair the ability to use wealth to assess economic sustainability or the impacts of economic downturns. Some increases in wealth may reflect increased economic rents—in particular, land and exploitation rents—and...

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Consumption Smoothing Through Fiscal Policy in OECD and EU Countries

Arreaza, Adriana; Sørensen, Bent E.; Yosha, Oved - 2021

We measure the amount of smoothing achieved through various components of the government deficit in EU and OECD countries. For EU countries, at the 1-year frequency percent of shocks to GDP are smoothed via government consumption, 18 percent via transfers percent via subsidies, while taxes...

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The experimental programme organised by France to facilitate the reintegration of Romanian migrants

Gontard, Christophe - In: Migration policies and EU enlargement : the case of …, (pp. 182-183). 2001

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The Skill Composition of Immigrants and the Generosity of the Welfare State : Free vs. Policy-Controlled Migration

Cohen, Alon - 2010

composition of immigrants under free migration is negative. The reason is that welfare state benefits attract unskilled migrants … generosity (and taxes) of the welfare state on the skill composition of migrants is positive if migration is controlled by policy … the skill-composition of migrants under free migration; but it exerts a more positive effect under controlled migration …

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The Skill Composition of Migration and the Generosity of the Welfare State

Cohen, Alon - 2009

when absorbing high-skill (respectively, low-skill) migration. In this paper we first examine this hypothesis in a politico … arise because the skill composition of migration is itself affected by the generosity of the welfare state …

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Working Their Way Up? Us Immigrants' Changing Labor Market Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration

Collins, William J. - 2019

is difficult to answer this question for the Age of Mass Migration, when US immigration was at its peak. New datasets of …

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Socioeconomic Integration of U.S. Immigrant Groups Over the Long Term : The Second Generation and Beyond

Duncan, Brian - 2018

In this chapter, we document generational patterns of educational attainment and earnings for contemporary immigrant groups. We also discuss some potentially serious measurement issues that arise when attempting to track the socioeconomic progress of the later-generation descendants of U.S....

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