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Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection : Evidence from Europe

D'Amuri, Francesco - 2011

whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational …: immigration stimulated job creation, and the complexity of jobs offered to new native hires was higher relative to the complexity …

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The Tax Treatment of Married Couples and the 1981 Tax Law

Feenberg, Daniel R. - 1982

Currently U.S. Federal Income Tax schedules do not maintain marriage neutrality, that is, tax liabilities depend upon marital status. This paper shows the extent and distribution of the departure from neutrality both under current law and the new (1981) tax act. The new tax law establishes a...

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Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe

Alesina, Alberto - 2019

We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of …

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Skill of the Immigrants and Vote of the Natives : Immigration and Nationalism in European Elections 2007-2016

Moriconi, Simone - 2018

In this paper we document the impact of immigration at the regional level on Europeans' political preferences as … consistent with the impact of immigration on individual political preferences, which we estimate using longitudinal data, and on … opinions about immigrants. Conversely, immigration did not affect electoral turnout. Simulations based on the estimated …

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

Cohen, Alon - 2009

Skilled migrants typically contribute to the welfare state more than they draw in benefits from it. The opposite holds for unskilled migrants. This suggests that a host country is likely to boost (respectively, curtail) its welfare system when absorbing high-skill (respectively, low-skill)...

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

Cohen, Alon - 2008

The paper analyzes the effect of the generosity of the welfare state on the skill composition of immigrants. We develop a parsimonious model in which the effect of an increase in the generosity (and taxes) of the welfare state on the skill composition of immigrants under free migration is...

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The Effects of the Ageing European Population on Economic Growth and Budgets : Implications for Immigration and Other Policies

Feldstein, Martin S. - 2006

increased immigration would do little to reduce the future fiscal burden. The increased revenue from a large rise in immigration …

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Protective or Counter-Productive? European Labor Market Institutions and the Effect of Immigrants on EU Natives

Angrist, Joshua - 2001

increase the negative impact of immigration on equilibrium employment. In models without interactions, OLS estimates for a …We estimate the effect of immigrant flows on native employment in Western Europe, and then ask whether the employment … consequences of immigration vary with institutions that affect labor market flexibility. Reduced flexibility may protect natives …

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Is The Mediterranean The New Rio Grande? US And EU Immigration Pressures In The Long Run

Hanson, Gordon - 2016

How will worldwide changes in population affect pressures for international migration in the future? We contrast the past three decades, during which population pressures contributed to substantial labor flows from neighboring countries into the United States and Europe, with the coming three...

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Migration and Welfare State : Why is America Different from Europe?

Razin, Assaf - 2014

Over the years, there emerged two key policy differences between Europe and America, both welfare and migration-states. The former has more generous welfare state and more liberal migration policies than the latter. In this paper we attempt to provide a political-economy explanation for these...

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