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Illegal migration and consumption behavior of immigrant households

Dustmann, Christian; Fasani, Francesco; Speciale, Biagio - 2015

We analyze the effect of immigrants' legal status on their consumption behavior using unique survey data that samples both documented and undocumented immigrants. To address the problem of sorting into legal status, we propose two alternative identification strategies as exogenous source of...

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Education, reputation or network? : evidence from Italy on migrant workers employability

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna; Ponti, Giovanni - 2009

investigate whether the above mentioned mechanisms are adopted by immigrants in Italy, a crucial country for EU immigration flows …

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Nudging the agents : does it reduce discrimination against migrants in the house rental market?

Zanoni López, Wladimir; Díaz, Lina; Díaz, Emily; … - 2023

This study examines the impact of a behavioral intervention on reducing discrimination against Venezuelan migrants in … migrants represent the second-largest migratory group globally, with over seven million individuals seeking refuge primarily in … artifactual field experiment involved providing information to REAs that highlighted the extra efforts Venezuelan migrants must …

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Migrant networks and job search outcomes : evidence from displaced workers

Colussi, Tommaso - 2013 - First draft: December 2011, This version: June 2013

This paper investigates how the job search outcomes of displaced migrants are affected by the labor market outcomes of …

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Refugees' integration into the Austrian labour market : dynamics of occupational mobility and job-skills mismatch

Leitner, Sandra M.; Landesmann, Michael - 2020

This paper analyses the employment experiences of the recent wave of Middle Eastern refugees (from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran) in the Austrian job market. The emphasis in this research was to investigate whether refugees experienced an initial (sharp) downgrade in their occupational...

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Immigrant crime and legal status : evidence from repeated amnesty programs

Fasani, Francesco - 2018

Do general amnesty programs lead to reductions in the crime rate among immigrants? We answer this question by exploiting cross-sectional and time variation in the number of immigrants legalized generated by the enactment of repeated amnesty programs between 1990 and 2005 in Italy. We address the...

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Does emigration benefit the stayers? : the EU enlargement as a natural experiment ; evidence from Lithuania

Elsner, Benjamin - 2010

The eastern enlargement of the European Union in 2004 triggered a large flow of migrant workers from the new member states to the UK and Ireland. This paper analyzes the impact of this migration wave on the real wages in the source countries. I consider the case of Lithuania, which had the...

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Cyclical dimensions of labour mobility after EU enlargement

Ahearnea, Alan; Brücker, Herbert; Darvasa, Zsolt; … - 2009

find that, in the short run, the crisis is likely to lead to a somewhat lower stock of migrants from the new member states … in the EU15 than would have been the case without the crisis on account of diminished job opportunities for migrants. By …

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Intellectual property rights, migration, and diaspora

Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - 2011

In this paper we study theoretically and empirically the role of the interaction between skilled migration and intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although emigration from the South may directly result in the...

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Being on the frontline? : immigrant workers in Europe and the COVID-19 pandemic

Fasani, Francesco; Mazza, Jacopo - 2020

in Europe by proposing a novel measure of their exposure to employment risk. We characterize migrants' occupations along … after the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. We estimate that, within industries and occupations, Extra-EU migrants and …

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