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Skill upgrading and exports
Accetturo, Antonio; Bugamelli, Matteo; Lamorgese, Andrea - Banca d'Italia - 2013
This paper analyzes the effects of international trade on the relative demand for skilled workers in Italian local labor markets. We find that exports cause a sizable skill upgrading in the labor force by increasing the average level of education of the workforce and the share of white-collars...
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How does immigration affect native internal mobility? New evidence from Italy
Mocetti, Sauro; Porello, Carmine - Banca d'Italia - 2010
This paper investigates the relationship between native internal mobility and immigration in Italy, in order to gain a … better understanding of the impact of immigration on local labour markets and to gauge the consequences for the socio … addressed using proximity to �gateways� as the instrumental variable. We find that immigration is positively associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008626018
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Immigrant earnings in the Italian labour market
Accetturo, Antonio; Infante, Luigi - Banca d'Italia - 2008
The aim of this paper is to assess the relationship between individual skills and labour market performance of immigrants residing in Lombardy during the period 2001-2005. We use a recent dataset collected by the NGO ISMU, which includes information on individual characteristics and the legal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005111552
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The Labor Market Impact of Immigration in Western Germany in the 1990's
D'Amuri, Francesco; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, … - Banca d'Italia - 2008
We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … period 1987- 2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and … �flexible� as the UK labor market, it would be more effcient in dealing with the effects of immigration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005111553
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Immigration and crime: an empirical analysis
Bianchi, Milo; Buonanno, Paolo; Pinotti, Paolo - Banca d'Italia - 2008
In this paper we examine the empirical relationship between immigration and crime across Italian provinces during the … Italy. According to these estimates, immigration increases only the incidence of robberies and has no effect on all other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113556
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With a little help from abroad: the effect of low-skilled immigration on the female labor supply
Barone, Guglielmo; Mocetti, Sauro - Banca d'Italia - 2010
production sector. Finally, we show that immigration arises as a substitute to publicly provided welfare services, although this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008605946
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Legal status of immigrants and criminal behavior: evidence from a natural experiment
Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Pinotti, Paolo - Banca d'Italia - 2011
We estimate the causal effect of immigrants' legal status on criminal behavior exploiting exogenous variation in migration restrictions across nationalities driven by the last round of the European Union enlargement. Unique individual-level data on a collective clemency bill enacted in Italy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144905
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Immigration, jobs and employment protection: evidence from Europe before and during the Great Recession
D'Amuri, Francesco; Peri, Giovanni - Banca d'Italia - 2012
In this paper we analyse the impact of immigrants on the type and quantity of natives� jobs. We use data on fifteen Western European countries during the 1996-2010 period. We find that immigrants, by taking up manual-routine type of occupations pushed natives towards more...
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