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Immigration and Careers of European Workers: Effects and the Role of Policies
Cattaneo, Cristina; Fiorio, Carlo V.; Peri, Giovanni - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
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 … Europeans are more likely to upgrade to more skilled and better paid occupations, when a larger number of immigrants enter their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010813785
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What Happens to the Careers of European Workers when Immigrants "Take their Jobs"?
Cattaneo, Cristina; Fiorio, Carlo V.; Peri, Giovanni - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010781887
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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
continuum of tasks in each sector and we augment it to include immigrants with heterogeneous productivity in tasks. We use this … pushed natives toward more communication-intensive tasks while it has pushed immigrants away from them. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008828392
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Cost Effectiveness in River Management: Evaluation of Integrated River Policy System in Tidal Ouse
Wang, Tao - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
The River Ouse forms a significant part of Humber river system, which drains about one fifth the land area of England and provides the largest fresh water source to the North Sea from UK. The river quality in the tidal river suffered from sag of dissolved oxygen (DO) during last few decades,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385369
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Are EU Environmental Policies Too Demanding for New Members States?
Pellegrini, Lorenzo; Gerlagh, Reyer - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005
In 2004, ten new states entered the European Union. Relative to the pre-2004 member states, these accession states have lower environmental standards, and some worry that it will be too demanding for these new EU members to fully comply with European environmental provisions. In this paper, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385400
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Immigrants’ Entrepreneurial Opportunities: The Case of the Chinese in Portugal
Oliveira, Catarina Reis - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
what some authors defend, it is not only the cultural factors that channel immigrants into certain segments of the labour … market. Several structural factors associated to these immigrants’ arrival should be considered: the immigration policy of … its economic incorporation; the operation of social networks; the possibility to acquire capital among the community …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423093
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From Outsiders to On-Paper Equals to Cultural Curiosities? The Trajectory of Diversity in the USA
Betancur, John J. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
This paper examines the genesis and trajectory of diversity in the USA. It argues that unfortunately diversity was more a product of market interests and differential processes in the recruitment of workers at different times and for different purposes than a smooth process of incorporation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005392530
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The Transmission of Sustainable Harvesting Norms When Agents Are Conditionally Cooperative
Richter, Andries; Grasman, Johan - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
Experimental and observational studies have highlighted the importance of agents being conditionally cooperative when facing a social dilemma. We formalize this mechanism in a theoretical model that portrays a small community having joint access to a common pool resource. The diffusion of norms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010833911
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Waste Prevention and Social Preferences: The Role of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations
Cecere, Grazia; Mancinelli, Susanna; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
Though reduction is at the top of the waste management hierarchy, EU policies have historically introduced waste management incentives mainly concerning waste recovery and recycling, in addition to actions aimed at reducing disposal in landfills. Only very recently have EU policies started...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010833927
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Contagious Cooperation, Temptation, and Ecosystem Collapse
Richter, Andries; Soest, Daan van; Grasman, Johan - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
Real world observations suggest that social norms of cooperation can be effective in overcoming social dilemmas such as the joint management of a common pool resource – but also that they can be subject to slow erosion and sudden collapse. We show that these patterns of erosion and collapse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010833933