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Asylum Seekers in Europe: The Warm Glow of a Hot Potato

Facchini, Giovanni; Lorz, Oliver; Willmann, Gerald - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2005

The Common European Asylum System calls for increased coordination of the EU countries’ policies towards asylum seekers and refugees. In this paper, we provide a formal analysis of the effects of coordination, explicitly modelling the democratic process through which policy is determined. In a...

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Networks, Sorting and Self-selection of Ecuadorian Migrants

Bertoli, Simone - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2010

This paper provides new empirical evidence about the influence exerted by migration networks upon migrants‟ self …-selection in education from the analysis of the recent process of Ecuadorian migration. The severe economic crisis that hit Ecuador … in the late 1990s induced a massive wave of migration, from a country which was characterized by a substantial …

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Does citizenship matter? The economic impact of naturalizations in Germany

Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008

The paper analyzes whether citizenship acquisition affects the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. The study uses actual micro data from the IAB employment sample, which covers more than 80% of the whole labor force in Germany. The econometric analysis is carried out using both...

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Task Specialisation, Immigration and Wages

Peri, Giovanni; Sparber, Chad - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008

Many workers with low levels of educational attainment immigrated to the United States in recent decades. In a simple model exploiting comparative advantage we show that if less-educated foreign and native-born workers specialize in performing different tasks, immigration will cause natives to...

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Immigration and Occupations in Europe

Francesco D’Amuri; Peri, Giovanni - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2010

In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on natives’ job specialization in Western Europe. We test whether the inflow of immigrants changes employment rates or the chosen occupation of natives with similar education and age. We find no evidence of the first and strong evidence of the...

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Social Determinants of Labor Market Status of Ethnic Minorities in Britain

Kahanec, Martin; Mendola, Mariapia - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008

The labor market behavior of ethnic communities in advanced societies and the social determinants of their labor market outcomes are important empirical issues with significant policy consequences. We use direct information on social interactions within multiple-origin ethnic minorities in...

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How Offshoring Can Affect the Industries’ Skill Composition

Horgos, Daniel; Tajoli, Lucia - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2010

While most offshoring literature focus on the effects on relative wages, other implications do not receive the necessary attention. This paper investigates effects on the industries’ skill ratio. It sum-marizes the empirical literature, discusses theoretical findings, and provides first...

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Entrepreneurship and Market Size. The Case of Young College Graduates in Italy

Addario, Sabrina Di; Vuri, Daniela - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2009

We analyze empirically the effects of urban agglomeration on Italian college graduates’ work possibilities as entrepreneurs three years after graduation. We find that each 100,000 inhabitant-increase in the size of the individual’s province of work reduces the chances of being an...

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Il lavoro interinale in Italia: uno sguardo all'offerta

Iacus, Stefano Maria; Porro, Giuseppe - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2002

L'esame dell'archivio amministrativo di una delle maggiori società di fornitura di lavoro interinale consente di osservare le specificità dell'offerta di lavoro temporaneo, rimaste in ombra negli studi realizzati finora sul lavoro temporaneo in Italia. I dati esaminati sono relativi alla fase...

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Migration and Foreign Direct Investment in the Globalization Context: the Case of a Small Open Economy

Ivlevs, Artjoms - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2006

The main objective of the paper is to establish the link between the exogenous migration shocks and endogenous foreign …

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