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 unaff ected all …

This paper studies the joint determination of beliefs about the economic impact of immigration and immigration policy … characteristics, this analysis takes into account individual media consumption as a determinant of opinion about immigration. Our … social and political matters through newspapers and radio have a better opinion on the economic impact of immigration …

Differences between men and women in non-cognitive skills could be the reason why the gender gap closing didn’t improve …" database conducted by the Céreq. This survey provides information on gender preferences differences in terms of career versus …-cognitive skills matter, 6.3% of the total gender wage gap, that is almost twice as experience, but a large part, 60% of the gap …

. The second measures the extent of the gender performance gap among informal entrepreneurs and explores the existence of … gender-differentiated effects of sharing norms and the allocation of tasks within the household on the technical efficiency …

gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of … time within the household in the gender performance gap, by estimating their effect on the technical inefficiency of female …

highlight a definite gender pattern, with a strong association between early disadvantage and obesity in women, but not in men …