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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008461027
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005357793
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Firms’ Productivity and Internationalisation Choices: Evidence for a Large Sample of Italian Firms
Benfratello, Luigi; Razzolini, Tiziano - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008
This paper provides evidence on the links between productivity and internationalisation choices for a large sample of … literature on firm heterogeneity we estimate different measures of Total Factor Productivity and we provide empirical support to … the theoretical predictions that there is a productivity ranking among domestic firms, exporters, and FDI performers. By …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005086724
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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg. C. - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2010
continuum of tasks in each sector and we augment it to include immigrants with heterogeneous productivity in tasks. We use this ….S. manufacturing industries over the period 2000-2007 and find evidence in favor of a positive productivity effect such that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008751907
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752406
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018073
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Adoption of an IMF Programme and Debt Rescheduling. An Empirical Analysis
Marchesi, Silvia - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2001
The existence of an empirical relationship between the adoption of an IMF programme and the concession of a debt rescheduling by commercial creditors is tested using a bivariate probit model. If countries who have arrangements with the IMF are more likely than others to obtain a rescheduling of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004981431
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Does ICT Investment Spur or Hamper Offshoring? Empirical Evidence from Microdata
Benfratello, Luigi; Razzolini, Tiziano; Sembenelli, … - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2009
In this paper we provide empirical evidence on the effect of ICT investment on the propensity to offshore for a large sample of Italian manufacturing firms. Contrary to previous literature focussing on the service sector, after taking into account the endogeneity of ICT investment in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004982765
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Attracting Foreign Direct Investments in Europe: are Italian Regions Doomed?
Basile, Roberto; Benfratello, Luigi; Castellani, Davide - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2005
During the nineties, Europe became a major recipient of FDIs but Italian regions have been largely excluded from this process. Was it due to their characteristics, or were Italian regions ‘doomed’ by a negative country effect? In this paper we address this issue by estimating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018086
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The Impact of New Immigration in native Wages: A Cross-occupation Analysis of a Small Open Economy
Tang, Heiwai; Wong, Stan Hok-Wui - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2011
This paper examines how immigration affects native wages by exploiting an unexpected episode of immigrant influx. The episode happened in Hong Kong, when its government unexpectedly relaxed the restriction on immigration from mainland China in 1993, resulting in a seven-fold increase in the net...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019919