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This paper uses data on a sample of Australian teenagers to test for neighbourhood effects on school dropout rates. The data allows us to test for neighbourhood effects at two different spatial scales. We find that educational composition of the larger neighbourhood can influence the dropout...
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David Metcalf, chair of the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), outlines recent changes in the regulatory framework for immigrant workers.
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We study a high profile public policy question on immigration, namely the link between crime and immigration …, presenting new evidence from England and Wales in the 2000s. For studying immigration impacts, this period is of considerable … European Union in 2004. As we show, this has important implications for ensuring a causal impact of immigration can be …
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Although most UK immigrants are likely to be eligible to apply for social housing, there is no evidence that they have preferential access - if anything the reverse seems to have been the case. But it does seem that there is less discrimination against immigrants and ethnic minorities now than...
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immigration in general and EU immigration in particular have still not, on average, materialised. It is hard to find evidence of … economic performance and opportunity. But we still need to know more about the effects of rising immigration beyond the labour …
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Using a large administrative French panel data set for 1976-2007, we examine how low- educated immigration affects the …-educated immigrants. We first show that larger immigration inflows into locations are accompanied by larger outflows of negatively … substantial evidence that immigration lowers the median annual wages of natives. The estimated negative effects are also much …
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market suggests that fears about adverse consequences of rising immigration in general and EU immigration in particular have … know more about the effects of rising immigration beyond the labour market in such areas as prices, health, crime and …
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market. On balance, the evidence for the UK labour market suggests that fears about the consequences of rising immigration … appear to have been modest. Unfortunately we do not know much about whether the effects of immigration are different in … downturns. We also need to understand more about how capital and sectoral shifts in demand respond to immigration over the …
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I use a unique linked employer employee panel covering all wage earners in the private sector in Portugal to shed new light on the careers of immigrants. During the first ten years in the country immigrants close one third of the initial immigrant-native wage gap. I show that one third of this...
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In recent years there has been an increase in the number of children going to school in England who do not speak English as a first language. We investigate whether this has an impact on the educational outcomes of native English speakers at the end of primary school. We show that the negative...
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