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We investigate the welfare implications of two pre-crisis immigration waves (1991-2000 and 2001-2010) and of the post … channels of transmission of immigration shocks - the employment and wage effects, the fiscal effect, and the market size effect …-country heterogeneity in the economic benefits from immigration. …
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This paper empirically revisits the impact of birthplace diversity on economic growth. We use panel data on US states over the 1960-2010 period. This rich data set allows us to better deal with endogeneity issues and to conduct a large set of robustness checks. Our results suggest that diversity...
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. As a further contribution, we study the interaction between the optimal immigration policy of the host country and …
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In this paper, we simulate the labor market effects of net immigration and emigration during the 1990's in all OECD … of non-migrants. Using the consensus aggregate model of labor demand and supply we simulate the long-run employment and … wage effects of immigration and emigration. We use a range of parameter values spanning most of the estimates in the …
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This paper examines the economic impact of the second great immigration wave (1945-2000) on the US economy. Contrary to … recent studies, we estimate that immigration induced important net gains and small redistributive effects among natives. Our … method to calibrate the model on historical data and then consider two counterfactual variants: a cutoff of all immigration …
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This paper empirically investigates whether emigrants from MENA countries self-select on cultural traits such as religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs, migration aspirations, short-run migration plans, and...
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original and detailed data on migration. Our results provide evidence of a strong transfer of fertility norms from migrants to …
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between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …, suggesting that immigration policies determine the sign and magnitude of the relationship between remittances and migrants …We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using …
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