In this paper we analyze the response of career, employment and wage of native Europeans to immigration. We then ask … also use the 1991 distribution of immigrants by nationality across European labor markets to construct a version of the … enclave-based instrument to proxy for the flow of immigrants, that is exogenous to local demand shocks. We find that native …

market. Several structural factors associated to these immigrants’ arrival should be considered: the immigration policy of … what some authors defend, it is not only the cultural factors that channel immigrants into certain segments of the labour …

effect of the inflows of immigrants on their career, employment and wages. We use the 1991 distribution of immigrants by … associated with higher skills and status when a larger number of immigrants enter their labor market. As a consequence of this …

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 … continuum of tasks in each sector and we augment it to include immigrants with heterogeneous productivity in tasks. We use this …

The nexus between firm growth, size and age in U.S. manufacturing is examined through the lens of quantile regression … performing firms towards the median rate of growth, while age is never advantageous, and more so as firms grow faster. …

This paper aims at analysing the role of the environment in innovative strategies based on firm economic performance … indicators such as employment, turnover, and labour productivity growth. We exploit a unique dataset of 773 Italian service firms … variables and controls. Our econometric findings show a negative link between environmental motivations and growth in employment …

characterise the economic growth-environmental performance relationship. Signals of inverted U shape appears: this may be a signal …This paper investigates the empirical link between emission intensity and economic growth, using a very large data set … of 61,219 Italian manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2004. As a measure of lagged environmental performance …

compare two types of contracts: a deforestation performance-based contract and a conditional avoided deforestation … information rent/efficiency trade-off. If the contract is performance-based (resp. conditionality-based), information rents are …

positive effect of ownership concentration on firm performance matters more in countries with weak investor protection and that … private domestic ownership leads to higher performance. …