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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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Types of Spatial Mobility and the Ethnic Context of Destination Neighbourhoods in Estonia
Mägi, Kadi - 2016
, intra-urban mobility, suburbanisation, and long-distance migration) for residents of the segregated post-Soviet city of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001871
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532748
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The (Struggle for) Labour Market Integration of Refugees: Evidence from European Countries
Fasani, Francesco; Frattini, Tommaso; Minale, Luigi - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532755
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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
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Lift the Ban? Initial Employment Restrictions and Refugee Labour Market Outcomes
Fasani, Francesco; Frattini, Tommaso; Minale, Luigi - 2020
migration. Our causal estimates are robust to several identification tests accounting for the potential endogeneity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532806
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The Short- and Long-Run Determinants of Less- Educated Immigrant Flows into U.S. States
Simpson, Nicole B.; Sparber, Chad - 2012
We use a gravity model of migration and alternative estimation strategies to analyse how income differentials affect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532819
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532927
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Being on the Frontline? Immigrant Workers in Europe and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Fasani, Francesco; Mazza, Jacopo - 2021
We provide a first timely assessment of the pandemic crisis impact on the labour market prospects of immigrant workers in Europe by proposing a novel measure of their exposure to employment risk. We characterize migrants' occupations along four dimensions related to the role of workers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532935