Italy is a country with a long history of emigration and a very short experience of immigration. The paper first … surveys the Italian emigration pattern describing the characteristics of the Italian emigrants (age, sex, skill level), their … area of origins and the directions of their movement. The determinants of the migration choice are then analyzed as well as …

Italy is a country with a long history of emigration and a very short experience of immigration. The paper first … surveys the Italian emigration pattern describing the characteristics of the Italian emigrants (age, sex, skill level), their … area of origins and the directions of their movement. The determinants of the migration choice are then analyzed as well as …

the variance of international and internal migration over time for identifying potential displacement effects. The main …

migration and innovation at the sectoral level. This allows us to measure the direct contribution of migrants in the sector in … components of human-capital, such as age, education and diversity of origin. To address the possible endogeneity of migration we …

Cultural differences play an important role in shaping migration patterns. The conventional proxies for cross country … tractable model for international migration which explicitly allows for the time varying and asymmetric dimensions of cultural … dimensional fixed effects which enables for the identification of the impact of cultural proximity on migration over and beyond …

first is mainly composed by women with a temporary migration plan while the second was initially composed by women but … rapidly the family reunification was obtained and the migration plan became more permanent. By using the Italian Labour Force …