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Migration, Cultural Diversity and Innovation: A European Perspective
Bosetti, Valentina; Cattaneo, Cristina; Verdolini, Elena - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
This paper analyses the effect of skilled migration on two measures of innovation, patenting and citations of … scientific publications, in a panel of 20 European countries. Skilled migrants positively contribute to the knowledge formation … diversity consistently increases the innovation performance of European Countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010584502
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Intellectual Property Rights, Migration, and Diaspora
Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011
intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although … workers there. By increasing the size of the innovation sector and the skill-intensity of emigration, IPRs protection makes it … correlation between emigration and innovation in the presence of strong IPRs protection. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320993
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008828392
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Child Labor and Resistance to Change
Bellettini, Giorgio; Ceroni, Carlotta Berti; Ottaviano, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
We study the interactions between technological innovation, investment in human capital and child labor. In our setting … firms decide on innovation, then households decide on education. In equilibrium the presence of inefficient child labor … on child labor are welfare reducing, while a subsidy to innovation is the right tool to eliminate child labor and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423060
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Production Offshoring and the Skill Composition of Italian Manufacturing Firms: A Counterfactual Analysis
Antonietti, Roberto; Antonioli, Davide - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007
This work explores the effects of cross-border relocation of production on the skill composition of Italian manufacturing firms. Its aim is to assess if the firms’ strategy to offshore production activities towards cheap labor countries determines a bias in the relative employment of skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005392542
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385506
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010833899
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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
The eastern enlargement of the European Union in 2004 triggered a large flow of migrant workers from the new member states to the UK and Ireland. This paper analyzes the impact of this migration wave on the real wages in the source countries. I consider the case of Lithuania, which had the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008828393
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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, the trend of recent legislation points to the increasing closure of frontiers (OECD 1999, 2001,2004), also by using immigration quotas. On the other hand, there is an increase of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230860
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004965200