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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...

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Does citizenship matter? The economic impact of naturalizations in Germany

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

effect on wages and an accelerated wage growth in the years after the naturalization event. Both results are consistent with …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005357793

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 … the employment share of immigrants across occupations for identification. To tackle endogeneity between wages and … new Chinese immigrants to natives decreases native monthly real wages in the same occupation by 2.8-3.6 percents …

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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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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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Employment of Undocumented Immigrants and the Prospect of Legal Status: Evidence from an Amnesty Program

Devillanova, Carlo; Fasani, Francesco; Frattini, Tommaso - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2014

This paper estimates the causal effect of the prospect of legal status on the employment outcomes of undocumented immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits a natural experiment provided by the 2002 amnesty program in Italy that introduced an exogenous discontinuity in eligibility based on...

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Mind What Your Voters Read: Media Exposure and International Economic Policy Making

Facchini, Giovanni; Frattini, Tommaso; Signorotto, Cora - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2013

e investigate the role of constituents’ preferences in shaping the voting behavior of elected representatives on immigration and trade policy. Using a novel dataset spanning the period 1986-2004, in which we match individual opinion surveys with congressmen roll call votes, we find that...

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he Political Economy of Trade and Migration: Evidence from the U.S. Congress

Conconi, Paola; Facchini, Giovanni; Steinhardt, Max F.; … - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2012

Over the last decades, the United States has become increasingly integrated in the world economy. Very low trade barriers and comparatively liberal migration policies have made these developments possible. What drove US congressmen to support the recent wave of globalization? While much of the...

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