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Italian Abstract: Questo lavoro analizza le determinanti delle rimesse in uscita dall’Italia e presenta una metodologia per quantificare la parte di esse che non transita via intermediari ufficiali (operatori money transfer, banche, poste) ma defluisce tramite canali informali, non rilevabili...
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In this paper we study the evolution of citizenship laws around the world. Our analysis is based on a dataset we compiled to document such evolution in 162 countries in the 1948-2001 period. Our econometric results can be summarized as follows. The legal tradition, as represented by the...
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The Harris-Todaro model of rural to urban migration is extended to include urban agglomeration effects, some urban real … wage flexibility and a government budget constraint. Without employment subsidies, laissez-faire migration is excessive … unless real wage flexibility and agglomeration effects are high. Laissez-faire migration is too low compared with the first …
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with non-household community members and the role of migration process. The extension of the interpretative model has …
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Italian Abstract: Il lavoro fornisce un quadro descrittivo dei recenti flussi di richiedenti asilo in Italia e nell’Unione Europea. Dopo aver esaminato le dinamiche degli ingressi irregolari e delle richieste di protezione internazionale, si analizzano le differenze a livello europeo...
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of production and international migration. While the first has been extensively studied, the latter has not received the …
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This paper studies empirically the link between remittances and growth volatility by examining the impact of remittances on the propagation of real and monetary shocks. This study is conducted by employing dynamic panel generalized method of moment (GMM) technique for a sample of 63 countries...
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Italian Abstract: Il presente lavoro sfrutta i dati fiscali per un'analisi della distribuzione del reddito a livello territoriale in Italia. Nel 2011 l'indice di Gini, la misura più comune della disuguaglianza, era pari al 40 per cento. Nel Mezzogiorno l'indice era superiore di oltre 3 punti...
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Italian Abstract: Il contributo è un tributo a Irma Adelman, scomparsa il 24 febbraio 2017. La Prof.ssa Adelman è l'unica economista donna la cui autobiografia è stata pubblicata nella serie di ricordi e riflessioni sulle esperienze professionali di eminenti economisti che "Moneta e Credito"...
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This work presents and discusses some of the most important social indicators (height, education, life expectancy and human development index), referring to the Italian regions for the period spanning from 1871 to 2001. According to the data, there was a catching-up process of Southern Italy...
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