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An offer that you can't refuse? : agrimafias and migrant labor on vineyards in Southern Italy
Seifert, Stefan; Valente, Marica - 2018
In the 2011 post-Arab Spring migration wave, over 64,000 migrants landed on the southern Italian coast, with many of them potentially working illegally on farms through caporalato, a widespread system of illegal recruitment of underpaid farm labor run by Italian agrimafias. To test this...
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Cyclical dimensions of labour mobility after EU enlargement
Ahearne, Alan G.; Brücker, Herbert; Darvas, Zsolt M.; … - 2009
This paper explores the influence of the economic cycle on labour mobility within the EU, focusing on the likely impact of the present economic crisis. To do so, we use an econometrically calibrated simulation and a case study of Ireland. We find that, in the short run, the crisis is likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003873055
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Do values matter for intra-EU migration?
Wolf, Holger C. - In: Labor mobility and the world economy : [2004 Kiel Week …, (pp. 231-243). 2006
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Migration, co-ordination failures and EU enlargement
Boeri, Tito (contributor); Brücker, Herbert (contributor) - 2005
EU leaders are well aware of the relevance of migration in the European policy agenda. Thirty-two pages out of forty-eight of the Presidency Conclusions at the November 2004 European Council were devoted to migration policies. Economic theory suggests that there is a strong case for policy...
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Health of elderly parents, their children's labor supply, and the role of migrant care workers
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Paetzold, Jörg; … - 2020
We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children’s labor market out- comes. We focus on health shocks which increase care dependency abruptly. Our estimation strategy exploits the variation in the timing of shocks across treated families. Empirical results based on Austrian...
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The war in Europe : economic costs of the Ukrainian conflict
Bluszcz, Julia; Valente, Marica - 2019
the Donbass region, Ukraine's productive core, has taken a severe toll on the country. Using cross-country panel data over … the period 1995-2017, this paper quantifies the short-term causal effects of the Donbass war on Ukraine's GDP. Results … from the counterfactual estimation by the synthetic control method show that Ukraine's per capita GDP foregone due to the …
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