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Countering public opposition to immigration : the impact of information campaigns

Facchini, Giovanni; Margalit, Yotam; Nakata, Hiroyuki - 2016

Popular sentiment toward immigration is often antagonistic, making the integration of migrants one of the most … to immigration? This paper reports results from a large-scale experiment conducted in Japan, a country with widespread … anti-immigration sentiment. Embedded in a comprehension study, we randomly exposed a large national sample of citizens to …

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Are political and economic integration intertwined?

Bratsberg, Bernt; Facchini, Giovanni; Frattini, Tommaso; … - 2019

Economic incentives play a key role in the decision to run for office, but little is known on how they shape immigrants' selection into candidacy. We study this question using a two-period Roy model and show that if returns to labour market experience are higher for migrants than natives,...

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Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act

Bernini, Andrea; Facchini, Giovanni; Tabellini, Marco; … - 2023

The 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) paved the road to Black empowerment. How did southern whites respond? Leveraging newly digitized data on county-level voter registration rates by race between 1956 and 1980, and exploiting pre-determined variation in exposure to the federal intervention, we...

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Migration, Friendship Ties and Cultural Assimilation

Facchini, Giovanni; Patacchini, Eleonora; Steinhardt, Max - 2014

Using novel information from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1996-2011, we document that migrants with a German friend are more similar to natives than those without a local companion along several important dimensions, including engagement in social activities, concerns about the...

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Migration, Friendship Ties, and Cultural Assimilation

Facchini, Giovanni; Patacchini, Eleonora; Steinhardt, Max - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

In this paper we contribute to the analysis of the assimilation process of migrants by analyzing the extent to which friendship with natives can be seen as a measure of cultural assimilation and investigating the formation of social ties in the host country. Using novel information from the...

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