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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

states to the UK and Ireland. This paper analyzes the impact of this migration wave on the real wages in the source countries …

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Intellectual Property Rights, Migration, and Diaspora

Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

In this paper we study theoretically and empirically the role of the interaction between skilled migration and …

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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 …

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Rethinking the Gains from Immigration: Theory and Evidence from the U.S.

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Peri, Giovanni - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

The standard empirical analysis of immigration, based on a simple labor demand and labor supply framework, has emphasized the negative impact of foreign born workers on the average wage of U.S.-born workers (particularly of those without a high school degree). A precise assessment of the average...

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Which Factors Explain the Rising Ethnic Heterogeneity in Italy? An Empirical Analysis at Province Level

Cattaneo, Cristina - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

The paper investigates the determinants of ethnic heterogeneity of the Italian provinces. Among other factors, the paper tests empirically whether gradual improvements in distant communication boost the generation of ethnically heterogeneous provinces. Consequently to easier communication,...

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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

In this paper we analyze the response of career, employment and wage of native Europeans to immigration. We then ask how individual country’s policies affect these responses. We use data on 11 EU countries, over the period 1995-2001. We also use the 1991 distribution of immigrants by...

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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

Following a representative longitudinal sample of native European residents, over the period 1995-2001, we identify the effect of the inflows of immigrants on their career, employment and wages. We use the 1991 distribution of immigrants by nationality across European labor markets to construct...

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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 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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Managing Migration through Quotas: an Option-theory Perspective

Moretto, Michele; Vergalli, Sergio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

Recent European Legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … framework . To do this, we have used a real option approach to migration choice that assumes that the decision to migrate can be … of counterbalancing immigration policies is not odd but it could be in line with an optimal policy to control migration …

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The Labor Market Impact of Immigration in Western Germany in the 1990’s

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Francesco D’Amuri; Peri, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial...

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