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Elementary facts about immigration in Italy : what do we know about immigration and its impact?
Mariani, Rama Dasi; Pasquini, Alessandra; Rosati, Furio … - 2020
The 2D:4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the 2nd digit to the length of the 4th digit, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study by Nicolaou et al. (2018) reported an association between the lefthand 2D:4D and self-employment (in a sample of about...
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Inmigración en la Comunidad Valenciana
Martínez Verdú, Remedios - In: Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar (2007) 4, pp. 19-28
This article describes the immigration of the Spanish Regional Community of Valencia. The population of Spain has jumped to 44 million people, thanks to almost 4 million new immigrants. Much of the present migration is to cities. Foreigners make up 19 percent of the population (and 28 percent of...
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Taxation And Internal Migration - Evidence From The Swiss Census Using Community-Level Variation In Income Tax Rates
Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Puhani, Patrick A.; Liebig, Thomas - 2006
We investigate the relationship between income tax rate variation and internal migration for the unique case of Switzerland, whose system of determining tax rates primarily at the community level results in enough variation to permit analysis of their influence on migration. Specifically, using...
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The Impact of Immigration on the Geographic Mobility of New Zealanders
Stillman, Steven; Mare, David - 2007
groups affects the geographic mobility of the New Zealand-born and earlier migrants. We identify the impact of recent … migration on mobility using the "area-analysis" approach, which exploits the fact that immigration is spatially concentrated …, and thus a change in the local supply of migrants in a particular skill group should have an impact on the mobility of …
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Immigrant misallocation
Birinci, Serdar; Leibovici, Fernando; See, Kurt - 2021
We quantify the barriers that impede the integration of immigrants into foreign labor markets and investigate their aggregate implications. We develop a model of occupational choice with natives and immigrants of multiple types whose decisions are subject to wedges which distort their allocation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012671238
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Immigration and careers of European workers : effects and the role of policies
Cattaneo, Cristina; Fiorio, Carlo V.; Peri, Giovanni - 2014
labor market. We find no evidence of an increased likelihood of non-employment or geographical mobility. We find that more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010373828
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Immigrant misallocation
Birinci, Serdar; Leibovici, Fernando; See, Kurt - 2021
We quantify the barriers that impede the integration of immigrants into foreign labor markets and investigate their aggregate implications. We develop a model of occupational choice with natives and immigrants of multiple types whose decisions are subject to wedges which distort their allocation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012591285
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Immigration and careers of European workers : effects and the role of policies
Cattaneo, Cristina; Fiorio, Carlo V.; Peri, Giovanni - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-26
labor market. We find no evidence of an increased likelihood of non-employment or geographical mobility. We find that more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010209731
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Optimal quota for sector-specific immigration
Mayr, Karin - 2008
always a substitute for native mobility across sectors. -- immigration ; political economy ; welfare ; sectoral mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009741042
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Aggregate-Level Migration Studies as a Tool for Forecasting Future Migration Streams
Schmidt, Christoph M.; Fertig, Michael - 2021
Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc specifications to historical data, and to...
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