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Interactions between Local and Migrant Workers at the Workplace

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2010

local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in or-der to increase the assimilation of the … size (in the firm) of each group and the cost of activities, has on the assimilation process of the migrants. …

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Ethnic Goods and Immigrant Assimilation

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2014

Some immigrants try to keep their ethnicity hidden while others become ever deeply more mired in their home culture. We … ethnic goods have vastly different effects on immigrant assimilation. We develop a simple theoretical model useful for … capturing the consequences of this struggle, illustrating it with examples of Central Asian assimilation into the Muscovite …

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Human and cultural capital complementarities and externalities in economic growth

BUCCI, Alberto; SEGRE, Giovanna - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2009

The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of culture, viewed according to Throsby’s definition of cultural … in the field of cultural economics highlights a possible inversion of the usual causality relation, and culture can be …

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Exposure to foreign media and changes in cultural traits: Evidence from naming patterns in France

Disdier, Anne-Célia; Head, Keith; Mayer, Thierry - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2006

Free trade in audio-visual services has faced opposition on the grounds that foreign media undermine domestic culture …, and ultimately, global diversity. We assess the media-culture link using name frequencies as a measure of tastes. Using a …

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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...

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Immigration: The European Experience

Dustmann, Christian; Frattini, Tommaso - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2011

This paper first presents a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide (and distinguishing between EU and non-EU immigrants) a comprehensive analysis of the skill structures of immigrants and their labor market integration in the different European countries, their...

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What Drives Individual Attitude towards Immigration in South Africa?

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria; Mendola, Mariapia - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2011

This paper empirically investigates the determinants of individual attitudes towards immigration in South Africa using the 1996, 2001 and 2007 rounds of the World Value Survey. The main question we want to answer is whether South African public opinion on migration is affected by the potential...

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What drives US Immigration Policy? Evidence from Congressional Roll Call Votes

Facchini, Giovanni; Steinhardt, Max - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2010

Immigration is today one of the most hotly debated policy issues in the United States. Despite marked divergence of opinion even within political parties, several important reforms have been in-troduced in the post 1965 era. The purpose of this paper is to carry out a systematic analysis of the...

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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

How many \"American jobs\" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector...

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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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