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Asylum Seekers in Europe: The Warm Glow of a Hot Potato
Facchini, Giovanni; Lorz, Oliver; Willmann, Gerald - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2005
The Common European Asylum System calls for increased coordination of the EU countries’ policies towards asylum seekers and refugees. In this paper, we provide a formal analysis of the effects of coordination, explicitly modelling the democratic process through which policy is determined. In a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018073
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The political economy of trade and migration: Evidence from the US Congress
Conconi, Paola; Facchini, Giovanni; Steinhardt, Max … - 2012
barriers and comparatively liberal migration policies have made these developments possible. What drove US congressmen to … political economy of trade and migration, in this paper we find that important similarities should not be overlooked. In … to support a more open migration stance than their Republican counterparts, and the opposite is true for trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311024
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South-South Migration and the Labor Market: Evidence from South Africa
Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria; Mendola, Mariapia - 2013
contributes to a small but growing literature on the impact of South-South migration by looking at one of the most attractive … of natives to other districts as a consequence of migration, as in Borjas (2006). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319403
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Do Interest Groups affect US Immigration Policy?
Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria; Mishra, Prachi - 2009
relevant role in shaping migration across sectors. Barriers to migration are lower in sectors in which business interest groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533060
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Individual attitudes towards immigrants: welfare-state determinants across countries
Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria - 2006
This paper analyzes welfare-state determinants of individual attitudes towards immigrants - within and across countries …-market determinants of immigration attitudes. In countries where natives are on average more skilled than immigrants, individual income is … relationships have the opposite signs in economies characterized by skilled migration (relative to the native population). Such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263954
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Individual attitudes towards immigrants: welfare-state determinants across countries
Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria - 2006
This paper analyzes welfare-state determinants of individual attitudes towards immigrants - within and across countries …-market determinants of immigration attitudes. In countries where natives are on average more skilled than immigrants, individual income is … relationships have the opposite signs in economies characterized by skilled migration (relative to the native population). Such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267885
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The political economy of trade and migration:Evidence from the U.S. Congress
Steinhardt, Max; Conconi, Paola; Facchini, Giovanni; … - 2013
barriers and comparatively liberal migration policies have made these developments possible. What drove US congressmen to … political economy of trade and migration, in this paper we find that important similarities should not be overlooked. In … to support a more open migration stance than their Republican counterparts, and the opposite is true for trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329474
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The Rhetoric of Closed Borders: Quotas, Lax Enforcement and Illegal Migration
Facchini, Giovanni; Testa, Cecilia - 2014
This paper studies why illegal immigration is widespread. We develop a political agency model in which a politician decides on an immigration target and its enforcement, facing uncertainty on the supply of migrants. Illegal immigration can arise for two reasons: the policy maker may be unable to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421199
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Illegal immigration and media exposure: Evidence on individual attitudes
Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria; Puglisi, Riccardo - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 7 (2017) 14, pp. 1-36
individual attitudes towards illegal immigrants. To study this question, we use the CCES survey, which was carried out in 2006 in … undocumented immigrants. We find an effect of the same size and direction for CNN viewers, whereas individuals watching PBS are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012012088
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China's "Great Migration": The Impact of the Reduction in Trade Policy Uncertainty
Facchini, Giovanni; Liu, Maggie Y.; Mayda, Anna Maria; … - 2018
important channel of impact has been internal migration. Specifically, we study the changes in internal migration rates … uncertainty experience an 18 percent increase in their internal in-migration rate – this result is driven by migrants who are "non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816551