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The Evolution of Citizenship: Economic and Institutional Determinants

Bertocchi, Graziella; Strozzi, Chiara - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2006

We investigate the origin and evolution of the legal institution of citizenship. We compile a new data set on citizenship laws across countries of the world which documents how these institutions have evolved from the legal tradition of common and civil law established in the course of the 19th...

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Remittances and the brain drain

Faini, Riccardo - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2006

home thanks to a relatively larger flow of remittances. Skilled migrants typically earn relatively more and, ceteris … flow of remittances from skilled migrants. Hence, the sign of the impact of the brain drain on total remittances is an … home out of a given flow of earnings abroad. We then derive an empirical equation of remittances and estimate it on a large …

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Emigration and Democracy

Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2011

Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. We find that emigration and human capital both...

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Skilled Migration, FDI and Human Capital Investment

Checchi, Daniele; Simone, Gianfranco De; Faini, Riccardo - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2007

It is commonly believed that accumulation of human capital (HC) and availability of physical and financial capitals are among the major determinants of economic growth. In a globalised world, where factors of production are increasingly mobile, the process of domestic accumulation of HC might be...

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When the Cat\'s Away... The Effects of Spousal Migration on Investments on Children

Rizzica, Lucia - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi …

form of remittances and then the latter decides how to allocate his total available budget within the household. A similar …

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Who is Against Immigration? A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants

Mayda, Anna Maria - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2004

This paper empirically analyzes both economic and non-economic determinants of attitudes toward immigrants, within and across countries. The two individual-level survey data sets used, covering a wide range of developed and developing countries, make it possible to test for interactive effects...

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International Labor Mobility and Child Work in Developing Countries

Paoli, Anna De; Mendola, Mariapia - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2014

This paper investigates the labor market effect of international migration on child work in countries of origin. We use an original cross-country survey dataset, which combines information on international migration with detailed individual-level data on child labor at age 5-14 in a wide range...

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Migration-Induced Transfers of Norms. The Case of Femal Political Empowerment

Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Salomone, Sara - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2012

It is recognized that affirmative action, as anti-discriminatory policies whose aim is to benefit an underrepresented group, is a key driver of progress for women. However, the role of migrants in helping female voice from abroad has not been addressed yet. This paper empirically investigates...

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Does International Migration Increase Child Labor?

Paoli, Anna De; Mendola, Mariapia - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2012

-level characteristics, remittances, and country fixed effects, our findings are consistent with predictions and show that international out …

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International Migration and Gender Differentials in the Home Labor Market: Evidence from Albania

Mendola, Mariapia; Carletto, Gero - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2009

migration episodes of household members. Controlling for the potential endogeneity of migration and for the income (remittances …

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