We investigate the influence of anti-immigrant parties on foreigners' location choices in Italy. Considering municipal …

exploiting the natural experiment occurred in Italy in 2007, when a large inflow of migrants - many of them specialized in the … decline observed in many high-income countries. In the recent past large inflows of lowskilled migrants have substantially …

labour market continues to raise concerns. Evidence across countries shows that migrants are more often over-educated than … natives. Over the last years, scholarship has intended to capture the effect of informal networks on migrants’ over …-occupation mismatch is well documented. This article has two objectives: it assesses the extent to which over-education affects migrants …

literature, we find that immigrants in Italy are less likely to be self-employed. The negative gap is confirmed when propensity … migrants and those coming from Sub-Saharan Africa, while it is not significant for mixed immigrant-native couples, for highly … skilled, and for migrants from Asia and Oceania. The largest gap is found for those working in the agricultural sector …