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When Credit Dries Up : Job Losses in the Great Recession

Bentolila, Samuel - 2013

.5 percentage points due to weak-bank attachment, representing between 8% and 36% of aggregate job losses …

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A 'Glass-Ceiling' Effect for Immigrants in the Italian Labour Market?

Dell'Aringa, Carlo - 2012

This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the (imperfect) international transferability of human capital. Data are drawn from the 2009 Italian Labour Force Survey (LFS). We show that returns to human capital are considerably lower...

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Are Foreign Migrants More Assimilated than Native Ones?

Faini, Riccardo - 2009

Italy, a country with large internal and international migration. This comparison, not yet exploited, yields understanding … the returns prevails, so that the foreign workers with lower wages are the most likely to stay in Italy. Also an "ethnic …

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Elementary Facts About Immigration in Italy : What Do We Know About Immigration and its Impact?

Mariani, Rama Dasi - 2020

In the recent past, in Italy, immigration has been at the centre of academic and policy debates. Nonetheless, the still … the phenomenon. In order to guide effective policy intervention, we offer an exhaustive view of immigration in Italy. We … studies. Our conclusions tell that evidence available for Italy does not match the policy relevance of an issue that has been …

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Revealing Stereotypes : Evidence from Immigrants in Schools

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2018

If individuals become aware of their stereotypes, do they change their behavior? We study this question in the context of teachers' bias in grading immigrants and native children in middle schools. Teachers give lower grades to immigrant students compared to natives who have the same performance...

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The Financial Decisions of Immigrant and Native Households : Evidence from Italy

Bertocchi, Graziella - 2018

Using rich Italian data for the period 2006-2014, we document sizeable gaps between native and immigrant households with respect to wealth holdings and financial decisions. Immigrant household heads hold less net wealth than native, but only above the median of the wealth distribution, with...

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Does Low Skilled Immigration Cause Human Capital Polarization? Evidence from Italian Provinces

Brunello, Giorgio - 2017

While there is a vast literature considering the labour market effects of immigration, less has been done to investigate how immigration affects the educational choices of young natives. Using Italian provincial data and an instrumental variables strategy, we show that the recent increase in the...

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Immigration and Work-Related Injuries : Evidence from Italian Administrative Data

Alacevich, Caterina - 2019

severity of workrelated accidents. We combine administrative data on work-place accidents in Italy with the Labour Force Survey …

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Female Migration and Native Marital Stability : Insights from Italy

Vignoli, Daniele - 2015

the marital stability of natives. We take Italy as a case-study and we offer discrete-time event history models predicting …

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The Effect of (Mostly Unskilled) Immigration on the Innovation of Italian Regions

Bratti, Massimiliano - 2014

We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation during 2003-2008. Using instrumental variables estimation (based on immigrants' enclaves), we find that the overall stock of immigrants did not have any effect on innovation....

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