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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 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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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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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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What drives US immigration policy? Evidence from congressional roll call votes
Facchini, Giovanni; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - 2011
Immigration is one of the most hotly debated policy issues in the United States today. Despite marked divergence of opinions within political parties, several important immigration reforms were introduced in the post 1965 era. The purpose of this paper is to systematically analyze the drivers of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278553
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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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Immigrant Franchise and Immigration Policy: Evidence from the Progressive Era
Biavaschi, Costanza; Facchini, Giovanni - 2020
What is the role played by immigrant groups in shaping migration policy in the destination country? We address this … requirements. First we document that naturalized immigrants were more geographically mobile than natives. Second, congressmen … representing districts with large numbers of naturalized U.S. citizens were more likely to support an open migration policy, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269873
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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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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 …
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