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The impact of an un(der)funded inclusive education policy: evidence from the 2013 China Education Panel Survey

Tani, Massimiliano; Zhu, Yu; Xu, Lei - 2021

Using the 2013 China Education Panel Survey (CEPS), we study the impact of a 2008 inclusive education policy, through which the central government mandated urban public schools to exempt migrant children from tuition and temporary schooling fees. Whereas the non-disclosure rule regarding...

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Does educational mismatch affect emigration behaviour?

Wanner, Philippe; Pecoraro, Marco; Tani, Massimiliano - 2021

This paper uses linked Swiss administrative and survey data to examine the relationship between educational mismatch in the labour market and emigration decisions, carrying out the analysis for both Swiss native and previous immigrant workers. In turn, migrants' decisions separate returning home...

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Skilled migration policy and the labour market performance of immigrants

Tani, Massimiliano - 2017

This paper studies whether migration policy, besides managing a country's population size, is a suitable tool to influence immigrants' labour market outcomes. To do so, it uses a migration policy change that occurred in Australia in the late 1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of...

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Ethnic identity and immigrants' labour market outcomes

Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Cheng, Zhiming; … - 2021

The objective of this paper is to analyse how immigrants' ethnic identity correlates with their labour market outcomes. More precisely, we estimate the role of ethnic identity in employment, wages, under-employment (i.e., they would prefer to work more hours but are not given the opportunity),...

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Do immigrants ever oppose immigration?

Kaeser, Aflatun; Tani, Massimiliano - 2022

This paper analyses immigrants' views about immigration, filling an important void in the immigration literature. In particular, it explores the role of statistical discrimination as a cause of possible opposition to immigration in absence of stringent immigration policies and large volumes of...

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Self-employment in China : are rural migrant workers and urban residents alike?

Cui, Yuling; Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - 2013

This paper studies differences in the motivation to be self-employed between rural migrants and urban residents in modern China. Estimates of the wage differential between self-employment and paid-employment obtained through a three-stage methodology using the 2002 China Household Income Project...

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Labour market outcomes and skill acquisition in the host country : North African migrants returning home from the European Union

Mahuteau, Stéphane; Tani, Massimiliano - 2011

This paper studies the educational investment decisions of returning migrants while abroad in the context of their decisions about the choice of activity upon returning and the duration of migration. The theoretical model builds on Dustmann (1999), Dustmann and Kirchkamp (1992) and Mesnard...

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Does higher education make you more entrepreneurial? : causal evidence from China

Huang, Bin; Tani, Massimiliano; Zhu, Yu - 2021

Using the 2017 China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), we estimate the effect of higher education on entrepreneurship … education are less likely to enter entrepreneurship in general, obtaining any qualification beyond the baseline of compulsory …

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Energy poverty and entrepreneurship

Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Wang, Haining - 2021

an individual’s probability of becoming an entrepreneur. Consistent with the theory of underdog entrepreneurship that … entrepreneurship, we find that spending a higher share of household income on energy consumption or being energy poor increases the … entrepreneurship. …

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Air pollution and entrepreneurship

Guo, Liwen; Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Cook, Sarah - 2023

We investigate the effect of exposure to air pollution on an individual's likelihood towards entrepreneurship using … panel data in China. To address omitted variable bias and endogeneity arising from self-selection into entrepreneurship and … propensity for entrepreneurship and a 34 percentage points decrease in the likelihood of entrepreneurial diversification. Our …

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