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Facing Displacement and a Global Pandemic: Evidence from a Fragile State

Di Maio, Michele; Fasani, Francesco; Sciabolazza, … - 2022

We use novel survey data to assess the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the Libyan population. In our sample, 9.5% of respondents report that a household member has been infected by COVID 19, while 24.7% of them have suffered economic damages and 14.6% have experienced negative health effects due...

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The Labour Market Impact of Immigration

Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; Frattini, Tommaso - 2008

In the first part of this paper, we present a stylised model of the labour market impact of immigration. We then discuss mechanisms through which an economy can adjust to immigration: changes in factor prices, output mix and production technology. In the second part, we explain the problems of...

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The Labour Market Impact of Immigration

dustmann, christian; Glitz, Albrecht; Frattini, Tommaso - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2008

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Understanding the role of immigrants' legal status: Evidence from policy experiments

Fasani, Francesco - 2014

Programs aimed at reducing the presence of unauthorised immigrants are often at the core of the migration policy debate …

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Task specialization, immigration, and wages

Peri, Giovanni; Sparber, Chad - 2008

Many workers with low levels of educational attainment immigrated to the United States in recent decades. Large inflows of less educated immigrants would reduce wages paid to comparably-educated native-born workers if the two groups are perfectly substitutable in production. In a simple model...

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Media Exposure and Internal Migration - Evidence from Indonesia

Farré, Lídia; Fasani, Francesco - 2011

This paper investigates the impact of television on internal migration in Indonesia. We exploit the differential … deviation in the number of private TV channels received in the area of residence reduces future inter- provincial migration by 1 ….7-2.7 percentage points, and all migration (inter and intra- provincial) by 4-7.4 percentage points. Short run effects are slightly …

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The Value of H-1B Status in Times of Scarcity

Sparber, Chad - 2015

For-profit firms are limited in their ability to hire new, foreign-born, highly-educated workers after quotas on H-1B work permits are met each year, though they are able to hire existing H-1B workers. Universities and other non-profit research institutions do not face the same restrictions....

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The (Struggle for) Labour Market Integration of Refugees: Evidence from European Countries

Fasani, Francesco; Frattini, Tommaso; Minale, Luigi - 2017

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Referral-based Job Search Networks

Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; Schönberg, Uta - 2011

This paper develops a model and derives novel testable implications of referral-based job search networks in which employees provide employers with information about potential job market candidates that they otherwise would not have. Using unique matched employeremployee data that cover the...

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Task Specialization, Immigration, and Wages

Peri, Giovanni; Sparber, Chad - 2008

Many workers with low levels of educational attainment immigrated to the United States in recent decades. Large inflows of less-educated immigrants would reduce wages paid to comparably-educated native-born workers if the two groups are perfectly substitutable in production. In a simple model...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532759