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Youth Unemployment Challenges in Mining Areas of Ghana

Sarfo-Mensah, P.; Adjaloo, M.K.; Donkor, P. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

Ghana, like the rest of West Africa is experiencing tremendous human migration both internally and across international boundaries. Rural-urban migration has assumed uncontrollable dimensions in the sub-region and the social consequences have become major development challenge. In Ghana the...

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Does Emigration Benefit the Stayers? The EU Enlargement as a Natural Experiment. Evidence from Lithuania

Elsner, Benjamin - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

member states. Using data from the Lithuanian Household Budget Survey and the Irish Census, I find that emigration had a … point increase in the emigration rate increases the real wage of men on average by 1%. Several robustness checks confirm …

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Indicators of Migrants’ Socio-Professional Integration

Gregori, Emilio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

Understanding and monitoring the diversity which lies under migrants’ socio-professional integration trends is a … integration of migrant people in Italy, based on data collected from administrative and official sources. This work was carried … of the theoretical concept of migrants, foreigners and integration was discussed, as well as the matters concerning the …

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“Google it!”Forecasting the US Unemployment Rate with a Google Job Search index

Francesco D’Amuri; Marcucci, Juri - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

We suggest the use of an Internet job-search indicator (the Google Index, GI) as the best leading indicator to predict the US unemployment rate. We perform a deep out-of-sample forecasting comparison analyzing many models that adopt both our preferred leading indicator (GI), the more standard...

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The Influence of Climate Change Considerations on Energy Policy: The Case of Russia

Markandya, Anil; Golub, Alexander; Strukova, E. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

To those working on climate change it is obvious that energy policy should be influenced by climate change considerations. The question that this paper seeks to answer is, to what extent do they influence policy and what contribution can a careful analysis of the costs and benefits of climate...

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Emigration and Wages: The EU Enlargement Experiment

Elsner, Benjamin - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

This paper studies the impact of a large emigration wave on real wages in the source country. Following EU enlargement … Lithuania for the calibration of a factor demand model I show that emigration had a significant short-run impact on real wages … in the source country. In particular, emigration led to a change in the wage distribution between young and old workers …

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How Homophily Affects Learning and Diffusion in Networks

Golub, Benjamin; Jackson, Matthew O. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

We examine how three different communication processes operating through social networks are affected by homophily - the tendency of individuals to associate with others similar to themselves. Homophily has no effect if messages are broadcast or sent via shortest paths; only connection density...

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Like Oil and Water or Chocolate and Peanut Butter? Ethnic Diversity and Social Participation of Young People in England

Fumagalli, Elena; Fumagalli, Laura - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

The paper studies the impact of ethnic diversity on social participation of young people. We first propose a theoretical model in which the agents choose between structured and unstructured social activities by taking into account the ethnic composition of the groups they join. We test our...

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Advocatus, et non latro? Testing the Supplier-Induced-Demand Hypothesis for Italian Courts of Justice

Buonanno, Paolo; Galizzi, Matteo M. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

We explore the relationship between litigation rates and the number of lawyers, in a typical supplier-induced demand (SID) frame. Drawing on an original panel dataset for the 169 Italian courts of justice between 2000 and 2007, we first document that the number of lawyers is positively...

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Diversities in Diversity: Exploring Moroccan Migrants’ Livelihood in Genoa

Alzetta, Roberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

It is a largely accepted idea that complexity and recent global phenomena have generated a multi-layered diversification process in Western societies. Migration phenomena are largely responsible for this process both in receiving European societies as well as in original sending countries....

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