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Christoph Albert shows that US immigrants buy substantially more imported goods than natives. They also reduce trade costs and increase local import supply, with small spillovers to natives. Tariffs hit immigrant households far harder than natives. Paper: www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...

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Ran Abramitzky addresses the interaction between immigration and politics: if immigrants' outcomes are positive, why are immigration politics so negative? Long-run perspective using historical US data.

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Can migrant letters shape culture at origin? @martinfs23.bsky.social presents evidence from 6,000+ letters by 19th-century Irish migrants in North America. The Catholic Church’s staggered expansion in the US increased religious content, contributing to a Catholic revival in Ireland.

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Welcome to day 2! @david-schindler.de shows that sexual violence committed by Moroccan soldiers in Italy during WWII triggered a far-right shift after the recent arrival of immigrants from Syria/MENA. Mechanism: selective recall of collective memory. Paper: david-schindler.de/workingpaper...

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Closing talk for today by @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social, who revisits the role of outmigration for development, with a focus on rural agricultural economies.

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Next up, Sarah Winton studies Jordan’s decision to grant Syrian refugees the right to work. Refugees moved to better jobs, while Jordanians shifted out of the most exposed occupations. Result: higher output, lower inequality, and the largest gains for the poorest Jordanians.

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@linchuanxu.bsky.social studies labor recruitment agencies in China. By connecting workers in poorer regions to jobs in high-wage cities, these middlemen increase temporary migration, narrow regional wage gaps, generate output gains, and capture a large share as profits.

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@jeromevallette.bsky.social studies how far-right movements reshape mainstream politics in France. As the Front National gained votes, mainstream right candidates moved to its terrain, talking more negatively about immigration and linking it to crime and welfare.

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With Caroline Theoharides, we turn to how migration moves more than people. International mobility can carry skills, ideas, and human capital across borders, with important lessons for how policy shapes who benefits from these flows.

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@yajnagovind.bsky.social studies France’s 1993 reform requiring children of immigrants to formally request French citizenship. The reform weakened French identity, increased perceived discrimination, and reduced cultural integration.

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Emma Thill studies how European national football shapes immigration attitudes. When diverse teams win, people become more open to immigration. When they lose, immigrant-origin players become scapegoats, and support for the far right increases.

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Next, @mkaradja.bsky.social shows that war reaches people who never enter the conflict zone. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainians in Sweden saw mental-health prescriptions rise by 30%, while also working and earning more to support family and friends at home.

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Next, @mettefoged.bsky.social studies Denmark’s decision to label high-immigrant neighborhoods as “ghettos.” Rather than fostering social cohesion, the policy backfired: families chose more foreign-sounding names and cultural distance widened.

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The second 2026 Bristol Applied Economics Meeting is on the Economics of Migration. We have an amazing program ahead of us. Stay tuned for one key takeaway per talk. Program: www.baem.info/Program_MIG_...

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