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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329025
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Migration, friendship ties and cultural assimilation
Facchini, Giovanni; Patacchini, Eleonora; Steinhardt, … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230516
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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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Migration, Friendship Ties and Cultural Assimilation
Facchini, Giovanni; Patacchini, Eleonora; Steinhardt, Max - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011094075
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083380
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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
Illegal immigration has been the focus of much debate in receiving countries, but little is known about the drivers of individual attitudes towards illegal immigrants. To study this question, we use the CCES survey, which was carried out in 2006 in the USA. We find evidence that-in addition to...
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
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
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