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Is immigration good for Europe? Long-run evidence using comprehensive well-being

2024

The immigrant (foreign-born) population increased by 32 million in total across 37 European countries from 1990 to 2019. Much of this movement was from east to west. Indeed, both the total and foreign-born populations declined in the former Eastern Bloc over this period. Such demographic shifts...

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The Well-Being Costs of Immigration in Europe

O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2025

-being, which captures all of the important factors affected by immigration. …

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Us and them: Reflections on Philippe Legrain's book on immigration

Dandolo, Francesco - In: The Journal of European Economic History (JEEH) 51 (2022) 2, pp. 151-160

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Can Immigrants Insure against Shocks as well as the Native-born?

Islam, Asadul; Stillman, Steven; Worswick, Christopher - 2016

actions to mitigate the direct impact of the shock. In this paper, we use nine years of longitudinal data from the Household …

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Can Immigrants Insure against Shocks as Well as the Native-born?

Islam, Asadul; Stillman, Steven; Worswick, Christopher - 2016

actions to mitigate the direct impact of the shock. In this paper, we use nine years of longitudinal data from the Household …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524994

Religion as an Unemployment Insurance and the Basis of Support for Public Safety Nets: The Case of Latin America and the Caribbean

Pecha, Camilo; Ruprah, Inder Jit - 2015

This paper explores the role of religion in mitigating the degree to which unemployment reduces subjective well-being and it examines its support of social programs. The paper goes beyond existing literature in three ways: It extends existing literature to Latin America and Caribbean countries;...

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Life satisfaction of immigrants: Does cultural assimilation matter?

Angelini, Viola; Casi, Laura; Corazzini, Luca - 2014

We empirically assess the relationship between cultural assimilation and subjective well-being of immigrants by using the German Socio-Economic Panel, a longitudinal dataset including information on both the economic and non-economic conditions of the respondents. We find that the more...

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Local-Level Immigration and Life Satisfaction: The EU Enlargement Experience in England and Wales

Ivlevs, Artjoms; Veliziotis, Michail - 2015

Scheme, we find that higher local level immigration increased life satisfaction of young people and decreased life … satisfaction of old people. This finding is driven by the initial 'migration shock' – inflows that occurred in the first two years … level immigration increased natives' satisfaction with their dwelling, partner and social life. …

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Utilitarian and ideological determinants of attitudes toward immigration: Germany before and after the "refugee crisis"

Welsch, Heinz - 2019

Previous studies on the determinants of attitudes toward immigration can be classified into those that take a … utilitarian perspective, focusing on individuals' perceptions of real-world impacts of immigration, and those that look at … immigration attitudes from the point of view of ideological orientation, focusing on broad political norms and values. While …

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Racial diversity, immigrants and the well-being of residents: Evidence from U.S. counties

Kuroki, Masanori - 2017

This paper presents empirical evidence that racial diversity and immigrant population at the local level tend to be associated with lower life satisfaction for Whites by matching individual data with the county-level population data during the period 2005-2010. The magnitudes I find suggest that...

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