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Immigration and welfare states: A survey of 15 years of research
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For example, the authors show that immigration flows, with the average characteristics of the last 15 to 20 years' immigration, have tended not to be to the advantage of natives while advantageous for immigrants.About:
This article is published in European Journal of Political Economy.The article was published on 2007-06-01. It has received 212 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Immigration policy & Immigration.read more
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Expressive behavior in economics and politics
TL;DR: Expressive behavior is the self-interested quest for utility through acts and declarations that confirm a person's identity as mentioned in this paper, i.e., the desire to confirm the identity of a person.
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Immigration and election outcomes — Evidence from city districts in Hamburg
TL;DR: For instance, this paper found significant and robust effects for changes in foreigner shares on the electoral success of parties that built up a distinctive reputation in immigration politics, indicating a positive effect for xenophobic, extreme right-wing parties and an adverse effect for the Green party that actively campaigned for liberal immigration policies and minority rights.
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Shaping Immigration News: A French-American Comparison
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explain continuity and change in French and US immigration news and explain what makes the press more multiperspectival and what makes for a critical critical press.
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Losing control
TL;DR: This column looks back at the days when the authors had direct, tactile control of their appliances and wonders what impact the loss of this control is having on their children's interest in engineering.
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Ethnic diversity, public spending, and individual support for the welfare state: a review of the empirical literature
TL;DR: The authors review the empirical literature that studies the effect of ethnic diversity on public spending and on individual support for the welfare state and put a particular focus on the fast-growing literature that uses experiments to study the effects of diversity.
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
TL;DR: Putnam as mentioned in this paper showed that changes in work, family structure, age, suburban life, television, computers, women's roles and other factors are isolating Americans from each other in a trend whose reflection can clearly be seen in British society.
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The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
TL;DR: In this paper, Esping-Andersen distinguishes three major types of welfare state, connecting these with variations in the historical development of different Western countries, and argues that current economic processes such as those moving toward a post-industrial order are shaped not by autonomous market forces but by the nature of states and state differences.
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The Economics of Immigration
TL;DR: The authors conducted a literature review on the impact of immigration on the economy of the host country focusing on the experience of the United States. The emphasis is on the period from the 1970s to the 1990s, and the author shows that research earlier in this period generally concluded that the economic effects of immigration were positive but that more recent research on later migrations have generally concluded immigration may be having an adverse effect on the earnings of native unskilled workers and be placing an increased burden on welfare programs.
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The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami Labor Market
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an empirical analysis of the impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami labor market, focusing on the effects on wages and unemployment rates of less-skilled workers.