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RETHINKING THE EFFECT OF IMMIGRATION ON WAGES

World Scientific Studies in International Economics, 2012
This paper asks the following question: what was the effect of surging immigration on average and individual wages of U.S.-born workers during the period 1990-2004? We emphasize the need for a general equilibrium approach to analyze this problem.
G. Ottaviano, G. Peri
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A Psychology of Immigration

, 2001
The discipline of psychology has much to contribute to our understanding of immigrants and the process of immigration. A framework is proposed that lays out two complementary domains of psychological research, both rooted in contextual factors, and both ...
J. Berry
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The Stability of Immigration Attitudes: Evidence and Implications

Journal of Politics, 2019
Do voters have stable immigration views? While any account of immigration politics must make an assumption about whether underlying attitudes are stable, the literature has been ambiguous regarding the issue. To remedy this omission, we provide the first
A. Kustov, Dillon Laaker, Cassidy Reller
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Turnover Rates in Insular Biogeography: Effect of Immigration on Extinction

, 1977
Demographic and genetic contributions from nonspecific immigrants tend to reduce ex- tinction rates of insular populations. The MacArthur-Wilson model of island biogeography is modified to provide for this effect of immigration on extinction, which we ...
James H. Brown, A. Kodric‐Brown
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Immigrant Narratives

SSRN Electronic Journal, 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 to identify sentences containing one or more of seven ...
Gehring, Kai, Harm Adema, Joop Age, Poutvaara, Panu   +2 more
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Immigration and immigrant generations in population projections

International Journal of Forecasting, 1992
This paper proposes a new model for population projections. This model projects an initial population under conditions of fertility, mortality, and international migration (like standard cohort-component models), but considers the population arrayed by generation. The model incorporates 4 generations: a foreign-born first generation (the immigrants),
Barry Edmonston, Jeffrey S. Passel
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Immigration and Crisis

International Migration Review, 1980
The author examines the purposes and results of recent migration legislation aimed at reducing the number of immigrants to France. The effects of government policies on employment relocation of industry and ideological structures are analyzed. Resistance to these policies is discussed and other economic functions of immigration within the national ...
Dixon K, Verhaeren Re
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Immigrants and immigration

2014
International ...
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Immigration Policy, Practices, and Procedures: The Impact on the Mental Health of Mexican and Central American Youth and Families

American Psychologist, 2018
Currently, 15 million Mexican and Central American individuals live in the United States, with this number projected to rise in the next few decades (Lesser & Batalova, 2017; Zong & Batalova, 2017).
Stephanie A. Torres, C. D. Santiago, K. Walts, M. Richards   +3 more
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Picturing immigration: how the media criminalizes immigrants

Politics, Groups, and Identities, 2018
A growing body of evidence demonstrates that the way the press frames policy issues can foster fear, particularly with respect to portrayals of immigrants.
Emily M. Farris, Heather Silber Mohamed
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