Immigration and Housing Booms: Evidence from Spain We estimate empirically the effect of immigration on house prices and residential construction activity in Spain over the period 1998-2008. This decade is characterized by both a spectacular housing market boom and a stunning immigration wave. We exploit the variation in immigration across Spanish provinces and construct an instrument based on ...

Immigration has become one of the most politically contentious and publicly contested issues in modern-day Europe. Immigration and immigrant-related diversity have become facts of life across the continent, but the adjustment by states to this new reality has not always been seamless. What started as a byproduct of colonialism and ill-conceived guest-worker schemes has now become a cornerstone ...

Identifying source-sink dynamics is of fundamental importance for conservation but is often limited by an inability to determine how immigration and emigration influence population processes. We demonstrate two ways to assess the role of immigration on population processes without directly observing individuals dispersing from one population to another and apply these methods to a population of...

Since the 1960s research on immigration and integration in the Federal Republic of Germany has evolved from an emphasis on 'social problems' of labor migrants (Ausliinderforschung) to questions of immigration control, citizenship and ethnic pluralism ('multiculturalism'). Early research on migration in the 1960s and 1970s dealt with the specific problems associated with the recruitment of labor...

How does immigration affect poverty trends and socioeconomic inequality? How are the children of immigrants integrated into American society? What role do public policies play in shaping the experiences of immigrants and their participation in social programs? Immigration, poverty and socioeconomic inequality effectively addresses these three complex questions while providing original insights ...

Background: Nursing shortage is a global health problem and one of the main challenges for healthcare systems throughout the world including Iran. Meanwhile, a large number of Iranian nurses migrate to other countries every year. This study was conducted to determine the frequency of intention to immigration in Iranian nurses and its relationship with workload and a healthy work environment.  ...

This paper deals with Markov branching processes allowing immigration at random time points described by a non-homogeneous Poisson process. This class of processes generalizes a classical model proposed by Sevastyanov, which included a time-homogeneous Poisson immigration. The proposed model finds applications in cell kinetics studies. Limit theorems are obtained in the supercritical case. Some...

This study examined the role of media influence and immigration on body image among Pakistani men. Attitudes toward the body were compared between those living in Pakistan ( n = 56) and those who had immigrated to the United Arab Emirates ( n = 58). Results of a factorial analysis of variance demonstrated a significant main effect of immigrant status. Pakistani men living in the United Arab Emi...