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Constant, Amelie - 2014

Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...

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Micro and macro determinants of health : older immigrants in Europe

Constant, Amelie; García-Muñoz, Teresa M.; Neuman, … - 2014

We study the health determinants of immigrant men and women over the age of fifty, in Europe, and compare them to … natives. We utilize the unique Survey of Health Aging and Retirement (SHARE) and augmented it with macroeconomic information …

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A "healthy immigrant effect" or a "sick immigrant effect"? : selection and policies matter

Constant, Amelie; García-Muñoz, Teresa M.; Neuman, … - 2015

the health of immigrants and the positive selection, screening and discrimination applied by the host countries. In this … data we are able to compare Israel and Europe that have fundamentally different migration policies. Israel has virtually … natives; b) immigrants to Europe have better health than natives upon arrival and up to eleven years since arrival in the host …

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A "healthy immigrant effect" or a "sick immigrant effect"? : selection and policies matter

Constant, Amelie; García-Muñoz, Teresa M.; Neuman, … - 2016

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Ethnic identity and immigrant homeownership

Constant, Amelie; Roberts, Rowan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007

Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...

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The impact of immigration on the well-being of natives

Akay, Alpaslan; Constant, Amelie; Giulietti, Corrado - 2012

This paper examines the effect of immigration directly on the overall utility of natives. To the best of our knowledge … robust, positive effect of immigration on natives' well-being. The presence of confounding local labour market … characteristics has a negligible impact on the estimates. Furthermore, we find substantial evidence that the effect of immigration on …

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Immigrant performance and selective immigration policy : a European perspective

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2005

. Integrated labour and migration policies are needed. The employment chances of the low-skilled are limited. Whereas Europe could … benefit from a substantive immigration policy that imposes selection criteria that are more in line with economic needs, the … substantial immigration into the European Union follows largely non-economic motives. This paper discusses the economic rationale …

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Do migrants take the jobs of native workers? : migrants rarely take native workers' jobs, and they boost employment effects in the long term

Constant, Amelie - 2014

Neither public opinion nor evidence-based research supports the claim of some politicians and the media that immigrants take the jobs of native-born workers. Public opinion polls in six migrant-destination countries after the 2008-2009 recession show that most people believe that immigrants fill...

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Immigrant performance and selective immigration policy : a European perspective

Constant, Amelie (contributor); … - 2005

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Does Immigration Hurt African-American Self-Employment?

Fairlie, Robert W.; Meyer, Bruce D. - 2021

Previous studies tend to find that immigration has a weak negative effect on the employment and earnings of native …-born workers. These studies overlook the effect of immigration on an important sector of the labor force, the self- employed ….S. to examine the relationship between black self-employment and immigration in both 1980 and 1990. To control for permanent …

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