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This paper examines differences in educational achievement between immigrants and natives in ten countries with a high population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. The first step of the analysis shows...
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, little is known about the impact of migration on migrants’ well-being. In this study, we aim to investigate the effect of net …-generation migrants. The results are mixed and vary by country. In particular, we find a positive impact of migration on both native’s and … migrants’ well-being in Germany, while a negative effect on life satisfaction of Swiss natives is revealed. Immigrants in …
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This paper examines the short-run immigration effects on prices for owner-occupied housing and rents in Switzerland … Union (EU), enacted in 2002, as an exogenous shock to immigration. The first approach uses the AFMP reform within an …, distinguishing between regions with historically high, medium, and low immigration from EU-15 countries. The analysis based on data …
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The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
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This paper examines the effect of increasing foreign staffing on the labor market outcomes of native workers in the German long-term care sector. Using administrative social security data covering the universe of long-term care workers and policy-induced exogenous variation, we find that...
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This paper examines the effect of increasing foreign staffing on the labor market outcomes of native workers in the German long-term care sector. Using administrative social security data covering the universe of long-term care workers and policy-induced exogenous variation, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468832
An important goal of immigration policy is to facilitate the entry of foreignborn workers whose skills are in short …
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services abroad on language skills at immigration trace back directly to migrants' participation in language courses, revealing …Immigration policy in most high-income countries is designed to promote qualified migration while maintaining high … positive (self-)selection of migrants along several dimensions, such as education, experience, and the probability of holding a …
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immigration policies, but stand ready to admit individual immigrants. Using an experimental design, we demonstrate the … applicability of the “person-positivity bias” to immigration and investigate the effects of economic and cultural “deservingness” on …
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