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Refugees and Foreign Direct Investment: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from U.S. Resettlements
Mayda, Anna Maria; Parsons, Christopher; Pham, Han; … - 2019
numbers of refugees after 1990. Secondly, we exploit the specificities of the Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180053
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Refugees and Foreign Direct Investment : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from U.S. Resettlements
Mayda, Anna Maria - 2020
numbers of refugees after 1990.Secondly, we exploit the specificities of the Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843730
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Refugees and foreign direct investment : quasi-experimental evidence from U.S. resettlements
Mayda, Anna Maria; Parsons, Christopher R.; Han Pham; … - 2019
numbers of refugees after 1990. Secondly, we exploit the specificities of the Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149171
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The Impact of Migration on Child Labor: Theory and Evidence from Brazil
Genicot, Garance; Mayda, Anna Maria; Mendola, Mariapia - 2016
This paper investigates the impact of internal migration on child labor outcomes in Brazil. We develop a theoretical … model and evaluate it on children aged 10 to 14 using two decades of Census data. In our model, migration impacts child … individual-level child-labor analysis with an empirical study of the labor-market impact of internal migration within Brazil. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653172
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The impact of migration on child labor : theory and evidence from Brazil
Génicot, Garance; Mayda, Anna Maria; Mendola, Mariapia - 2016
This paper investigates the impact of internal migration on child labor outcomes in Brazil. We develop a theoretical … model and evaluate it on children aged 10 to 14 using two decades of Census data. In our model, migration impacts child … individual-level child-labor analysis with an empirical study of the labor-market impact of internal migration within Brazil. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595849
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Risk, Government and Globalization : International Survey Evidence
Mayda, Anna Maria; O'Rourke, Kevin H.; Sinnott, Richard - 2007
This paper uses international survey data to document two stylized facts. First, risk aversion is associated with anti-trade attitudes. Second, this effect is smaller in countries with greater levels of government expenditure. The paper thus provides evidence for the microeconomic underpinnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051401
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Immigration to the U.S.: A Problem for the Republicans or the Democrats?
Mayda, Anna Maria; Peri, Giovanni; Steingress, Walter - 2015
-citizen migrants out of the population goes up and the size of migration makes it a salient policy issue in voters' minds. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420722
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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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The political impact of immigration: Evidence from the United States
Mayda, Anna Maria; Peri, Giovanni; Steingress, Walter - 2018
In this paper we study the impact of immigration to the United States on the vote for the Republican Party by analyzing county-level data on election outcomes between 1990 and 2010. Our main contribution is to separate the effect of high-skilled and low-skilled immigrants, by exploiting the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012014473
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Who Is Against Immigration? : A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants
Mayda, Anna Maria - 2004
This paper empirically analyzes both economic and non-economic determinants of attitudes toward immigrants, within and across countries. The two individual-level survey data sets used, covering a wide range of developed and developing countries, make it possible to test for interactive effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261871