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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 … that, after controlling for education and experience levels, native and migrant workers appear to be imperfect substitutes …
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Since output growth volatility has negative effects on growth, poverty and welfare, especially in poorer countries, it is crucial to identify the country-specific factors that affect it. The empirical literature has focused mostly on financial development, policy distortions and globalization...
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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 …
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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...
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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 …
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production sector. Finally, we show that immigration arises as a substitute to publicly provided welfare services, although this …
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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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speed up re-employment. While largely irrelevant for unemployment duration, contacts� quality is a significant determinant …
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The labour market status of many non-working persons is at the boundary between unemployment and inactivity. Like the … definition of unemployment. In this paper we examine by non-parametric tests how the transition probabilities of these out …
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