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Reason for immigration and immigrants' health [PDF]
Public Health, 2017 The existing literature on the health trajectories of the UK immigrants has mainly focussed on the relationship between ethnicity and health. There is little information on the role of immigration status and no previous information on the role of reason for immigration to the country.
Giuntella, O +3 more
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2006 "The ethnosizer, a new measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is proposed using information on language, culture, societal interaction, history of migration, and ethnic selfidentification. A two-dimensional version classifies immigrants into four states: integration, assimilation, separation and marginalization.
Constant, Amelie +2 more
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 Abstract Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This is reflected in immigration policies, and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs.
Fairlie, Robert W., Lofstrom, Magnus
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Immigration and Redistribution [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 One of the fundamental questions in the social sciences is whether modern welfare states can be sustained as countries welcome more immigrants. On theoretical grounds, the relationship between immigration and support for redistribution is ambiguous. Immigration may increase ethnic diversity, which may reduce the support for redistribution. On the other
Elsner, Benjamin, Concannon, Jeff
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Immigration and the Neighborhood [PDF]
Working paper (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia), 2006 Within metropolitan areas, neighborhoods of growing immigrant settlement are becoming relatively less desirable to natives. We deploy a geographic diffusion model to instrument for the growth of immigrant density in a neighborhood. Our approach deals explicitly with potential unobservable shocks that may be correlated with proximity to immigrant ...
Saiz, Albert, Wachter, Susan M
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Immigrant Entrepreneurship [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016 We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantities immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions.
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, Kerr, William
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Oxford Open Economics, 2022 Abstract This article investigates the relationship between immigration and inequality in the UK over the past 40 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 through two channels: the first is ...
Ian Preston +2 more
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Immigration Amnesty and Immigrant's Earnings [PDF]
, 2007 We review the role immigration amnesties have played in US immigration policy, placing them in the context of similar programs embarked upon by other nations. The theory of amnesties suggests rent-seeking, bargaining, and costs as reasons for a country offering an amnesty, often in conjunction with increased border controls, internal enforcement and ...
Ira N. Gang, Myeong-Su Yun
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Journal of Experimental Medicine, 2020 The advance of science is dependent upon collaboration, which does not have a visa attached to it. Indeed, over 40% of all American-based Nobel Prize winners are immigrants, and data from the National Science Foundation show that 49% of postdocs and 29% of science and engineering faculty in the US are foreign-born.
Jean-Laurent Casanova +7 more
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