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The economic effects of immigration restriction policies : evidence from the Italian mass migration to the US

Coluccia, Davide M.; Spadavecchia, Lorenzo - 2021

This article studies the impact of immigration restriction policies on technology adoption in sending countries. From 1920 to 1921, the number of Italian immigrants to the United States dropped by 85% after Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, a severely restrictive immigration law. In a...

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Back to (a different) emigration? : mobility from Spain and Italy during the economic crisis

Caro, Raquel; Cavasola, Silvia; Fernández, Mercedes - In: Revista iberoamericana de estudios de desarrollo 7 (2018) 1, pp. 30-55

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Italian migration

Del Boca, Daniela; Venturini, Alessandra - 2003

Italy is a country with a long history of emigration and a very short experience of immigration. The paper first … surveys the Italian emigration pattern describing the characteristics of the Italian emigrants (age, sex, skill level), their … the policies affecting the decision to migrate. The end of the first section provides an analysis of the emigration …

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