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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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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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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

public opinion on migration is affected by the potential labor market competition of migrants towards natives. We investigate … this issue by estimating the impact of survey respondents’ individual skill on their pro-migration attitudes. Our estimates …

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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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Interactions between Local and Migrant Workers at the Workplace

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

In this paper we consider the interaction between local workers and migrants in the production process of a firm. Both local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in or-der to increase the assimilation of the migrants into the firm and so by increase their interaction...

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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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Educational Achievement of Second Generation Immigrants: An International Comparison

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

This paper investigates the educational achievements of second generation immigrants in several OECD countries in a comparative perspective. We first show that the educational achievement (measured as test scores in PISA achievement tests) of children of immigrants is quite heterogeneous across...

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