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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 unaff ected all …
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We use Moroccan data to study the determinants of international migrants’ remittances, testing the altruistic and welfare hypotheses. In particular, we analyze and assess what motivates migrants to send remittances back home. Our results lend support to the altruistic hypothesis suggesting...
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immigration remains a real issue. This note offers a detailed critique of standard approaches to the subject and a series of …
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Purpose – The purpose of this editorial is to present an overview of the papers in this special issue. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on papers in this special issue. Findings – There is a multi-disciplinarily approach of the papers in this issue in connecting fields of...
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We build a simple model of self-selection into migration and immigration policy determination. We first show that the … effect of any immigration policy can be decomposed into a size and a composition effect. We then explore how the optimal …
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In this paper we analyze the main determinants of migrant’s remittances by measuring directly the role of non observable variables related to subjective motivations and historical context of the emigration process. Subjective variables, such as attachment feeling and intent to return to the...
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