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Social scientists from several disciplinary fields long agree that local labour markets can be defined as spaces of daily population mobility due to labour reasons (Combes 1986; Eurostat, 1992; Casado Díaz, 1991). The question we address in this paper is whether these spaces are not only useful for...
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L'objectif de ce papier est d'analyser les impacts du vieillissement de la population italienne sur le système économique et en particulier sur le système de retraite afin d'évaluer l'efficacité des réformes mises en place durant les années 90 (réforme Amato en 1992 et réforme Dini en...
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Most European countries have recently introduced pension system reforms to face the financial problem related to population ageing. Italy is not an exception. The reforms introduced during the Nineties (Amato Reform in 1992 and Dini Reform in 1995), even if they will produce a strong reduction...
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This paper analyzes the effect of immigrants' networks on the decision of individual firms to starting exporting to the immigrants' home country. Existing evidence on the trade-creating effect of immigrants show a robust effect, however at the national or regional level. Using French exports at...
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immigrants is the most valuable, immigration enhances imports regardless of the quality of institutions in the partner country …
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This article sheds light on the important differences in self-declared happiness across countries of similar affluence. It hinges on the different happiness statements of natives and immigrants in a set of European countries to disentangle the influence of objective circumstances versus...
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In this paper we examine the empirical relationship between immigration and crime across Italian provinces during the … population in Italy. According to these estimates, immigration increases only the incidence of robberies, while leaving …
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Does immigration reduce natives' support for the welfare state? Evidence from the European Social Survey (2002 … considerable heterogeneity across countries. We distinguish two channels through which immigration could affect natives' support … for the welfare state: a pure dislike of immigrants and concerns about the economic consequences of immigration. We find …
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This paper investigates the immigration impact on native outcomes using micro-level data for France. I find that … immigration does not affect the wages of competing natives, but induces adverse employment effects. This finding is consistent … interpretation of the immigration impact. First, I show that immigrants displace native workers because they are more willing to have …
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We examine the empirical relationship between immigration and crime across Italian provinces during the period 1990 … immigration toward destination countries other than Italy to identify the causal impact of exogenous changes in Italy's immigrant … population. According to these estimates, immigration increases only the incidence of robberies, while leaving unaffected all …
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