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recent literature developed since the 1990s, through the work of Gould (1994), on the relationship between immigration and … international trade, we propose in this paper to assess the impact of Algerian immigration networks on Algerian exports. It is clear …
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-skill immigrants to those countries which did not impose restrictions to immigration, namely Ireland, Sweden, and the UK. However …, there is lack of recent systematic evidence on the level of immigration and the quality of the new immigrants. We focus on … the UK and combine the British and the European Labour Force Surveys to analyse whether immigration to the UK has changed …
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and/or in education. For comparison we have followed groups of immigrants by their reason for immigration, like refugees … immigrants' reason for immigration. Immigrants who remain outside of employment and/or education is mostly to be found among … refugees, family-immigrants and immigrants with unspecified reason for immigration, while education- and labor-immigrants and …
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of redistributive policies are affected by poverty and immigration. We find that while information about poverty has no … detectable impact on the progressivity of the respondents' demanded income tax schedule, information about immigration has a … response to both poverty and immigration, while low income respondents desire less public expenditure on education due to …
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Llull presents a cross-country analysis of the impact of immigration on productivity and employment. Push … imply a semi-elasticity of native wages to immigration of −0.7 if the extensive margin of labour supply is ignored (the …
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conditions. The results show that, in this case, the impact of immigration on the level of development was small but positive. …
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This paper examines acculturational homophily in friendships of international students. Acculturation (also known as cultural assimilation) is measured by English-name usage. I use data from Renren.com, a Facebook-type social networking site based in China. The sample consists of students who...
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Prior empirical research shows that acculturation in the host country might be positively related to immigrants? labor market outcomes. However, whether acculturation helps highly educated immigrants in the labor market is in question, as they have completed a significant fraction of human...
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It is quite common in convergence analyses across regions that data exhibit strong spatial dependence. While the literature adopting the regression approach is now fully aware that neglecting this feature may lead to inaccurate results and has therefore suggested a number of statistical tools...
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