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Permanent Residency and Refugee Immigrants’ Skill Investment
Nielsen Arendt, Jacob; Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin - 2023
We analyze an immigration reform in Denmark that tightened refugee immigrants’ eligibility criteria for permanent residency to incentivize their labor market attachment and acquisition of local language skills. Contrary to what the reform intended, the overall employment of those affected...
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Inequality and Immigration
Dustmann, Christian; Kastis, Yannis; Preston, Ian - 2023
This paper investigates the relationship between immigration and inequality in the UK over the past forty years. This is a period when the share of foreign-born in the UK population increased from 5.3% in 1975 to 13.4% in 2015. We evaluate the impact immigration had on wage inequality in the UK...
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Labor Market Concerns and Support for Immigration
Haaland, Ingar - 2020
Do labor market concerns affect support for immigration? Using a large, representative sample of the US population, we first elicit beliefs about the labor market impact of immigration. To generate exogenous variation in beliefs, we then provide respondents in the treatment group with research...
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Immigrants' Contribution to Innovativeness : Evidence from a Non-Selective Immigration Country
Candel-Haug, Katharina - 2019
The economic consequences of migration are hotly debated and a main topic of recent populist movements across Europe. We analyze Polish immigration in the context of the 2004 enlargement of the European Union and find a positive and significant spillover effect of the immigrants on the number of...
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Does Labor Protection Increase Support for Immigration? Evidence from Switzerland
Bächli, Mirjam; Tsankova, Teodora - 2021
What affects native support for immigration? At a time of rising anti-immigration sentiments, this is a question raised by both academics and policy makers. We study the role of labor protection in shaping native preferences over migration policies. We look at Swiss national votes which took...
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The Social Integration of International Migrants : Evidence from the Networks of Syrians in Germany
Bailey, Michael; Johnston, Drew; Koenen, Martin; … - 2022
We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that … received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on … relative rate at which they befriend local Syrian migrants versus German natives (relative friending). We follow the friending …
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Labor Market Competition and the Assimilation of Immigrants
Albert, Christoph; Glitz, Albrecht; Llull, Joan - 2021
In this paper, we show that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between individual skill accumulation and dynamic equilibrium effects in the labor market. When immigrants and natives are imperfect substitutes, increasing immigrant inflows widen the wage...
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Immigrant Narratives
Gehring, Kai; Harm Adema, Joop Age; Poutvaara, Panu - 2022
Immigration is one of the most divisive political issues in many countries today. Competing narratives, circulated via the media, are crucial in shaping how immigrants’ role in society is perceived. We propose a new method combining advanced natural language processing tools with dictionaries...
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Picture this : Social Distance and the Mistreatment of Migrant Workers
Barsbai, Toman; Bartos, Vojtech; Licuanan, Victoria; … - 2023
We experimentally study an intervention to reduce mistreatment of Filipino overseas domestic workers (DWs) by their employers. Encouraging DWs to show their employers a family photo while providing a small gift when starting employment reduced DW mistreatment, increased their job satisfaction,...
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Migrants' Missing Votes
Giesing, Yvonne; Schikora, Felicitas - 2021
Emigrants are less likely to participate in elections in their home country. They are also self-selected in terms of education, gender, age, and political preferences, changing the structure of the origin population. High emigration rates can therefore have a systematic influence on election...
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