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The labor market impact of immigration in Western Germany in the 1990's

D'Amuri, Francesco; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, … - 2008

We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and … 'flexible' as the UK labor market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration. …

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Inside the black box: Labour market institutions, wage formation and unemployment in Italy

Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio - 2000

This study provides an assessment of the features that, operating "inside the black box", shape the evolution of the Italian economy. In the first section the focus is placed on the functioning of the labour market at the aggregate level. The picture described suggest that the Italian labour...

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Migration Dynamics

Vergalli, Sergio; Moretto, Michele - 2005

This paper tries to explain why most migration flows show some observable jumps in their processes, a phenomenon that seems to be sympathetic with the characteristic of irreversibility of migration. We present a real option model where the choice to migrate depends on both the differential wage...

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Immigration and Local Urban Participatory Democracy: A Boston-Paris Comparison

Chaib, Linda - 2004

This paper deals with a comparison of two governmental initiatives in the direction of immigrants - the Mayor's Office of New Bostonians (Boston, 1998) and Conseil de la Citoyenneté des Parisiens Non-Communautaires (Paris, 2001). In both cities, local political leaders justify their politics by...

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Foreigners, Immigrants, Host Cities: The Policies of Multi-Ethnicity in Rome. Reading Governance in a Local Context

Rossi, Claudio; Coen, Franca Eckert - 2004

This paper reviews the experience of Rome in dealing with the challenges posed by a multi-ethnic society. A central feature of the local political strategy is the "Pact of Integration". The adoption of the Pact proposes governance as a model of participation including many actors, namely...

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The Struggle of Becoming Established in a Deprived Inner-City Neighbourhood

May, David - 2003

The theory of established-outsider figurations developed by Norbert Elias is a use-ful tool for examining deprived neighbourhoods. The case of this paper is Dort-mund Nordstadt in Germany, an old inner-city neighbourhood which from its early days has housed the newly arrived immigrants. Elias...

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Migration restrictions and criminal behavior: Evidence from a natural experiment

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Pinotti, Paolo - 2011

We estimate the causal effect of immigrants' legal status on criminal behavior exploiting exogenous variation in migration restrictions across nationalities driven by the last round of the European Union enlargement. Unique individual-level data on a collective clemency bill enacted in Italy...

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Managing migration through quotas: An option-theory perspective

Moretto, Michele; Vergalli, Sergio - 2008

Recent European Legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … immigration quotas. On the other hand, there is an increase of regularization, i.e., European policies are becoming less tight …. Our aim here is to study these counterbalanced and opposite policies in European immigration legislation in a unified …

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Mapping Diversity in Milan. Historical Approaches to Urban Immigration

Foot, John - 2006

An historical and spatial approach is crucial to the understanding of any city. Waves of immigration and population … focus just on the new foreign immigration into Milan over the last 25 years or so risks omitting the deep historical …

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Which Factors Explain the Rising Ethnic Heterogeneity in Italy? An Empirical Analysis at Province Level

Cattaneo, Cristina - 2014

The paper investigates the determinants of ethnic heterogeneity of the Italian provinces. Among other factors, the paper tests empirically whether gradual improvements in distant communication boost the generation of ethnically heterogeneous provinces. Consequently to easier communication,...

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