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Why Do Italy? A Comparative Analysis of Bangladeshi Migrants into Five European Countries
Mannan, Dr Kazi Abdul; Krueger, A. O. - 2020
go to that country, followed by the UK, Germany, France and Spain. The study probably will help better understand the …
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Chapter 15. Immigration and the Distribution of Incomes
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 793-843). 2015
We review research on the impact of immigration on income distribution, surveying studies from a variety of countries. Immigration may affect the skill composition of a country's residents and also, by changing relative factor supplies, its relative factor prices. As background, we provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025435
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Housing Tenure and Labour Mobility : A Comparison Across European Countries
Barcelo, Cristina - 2006
duration model with two alternative exits to employment, depending on whether they are associated with a residential change or …
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Skills or Culture? An Analysis of the Decision to Work by Immigrant Women in Italy
Accetturo, Antonio - 2011
Activity and employment rates for immigrant women in many industrialized countries display a great variability across … employment rates for certain national groups are not associated with high reservation wages. This implies that low participation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118370
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The Immigrants Wage Gap in Italy
Coppola, Lucia - 2014
This paper investigates wage differentials between immigrants and natives in Italy along the entire wage distribution and try to account for them using information on observed characteristic of both populations. Analyses are based on data from the 2009 survey on "Income and Living Conditions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045066
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Do Immigrants Working Illegally Reduce the Natives' Legal Employment? Evidence from Italy
Venturini, Alessandra; Villosio, Claudia - 2014
immigrants working (illegally) in the shadow economy affect the employment of (legal) labor in the official economy. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014200407
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Are immigrants competing with natives in the Italian labour market? : the employment effect
Venturini, Alessandra; Villosio, Claudia - 2002
result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects … employment into unemployment; ii) job-search effectiveness measured by the probability of moving from unemployment into … employment within one year. The quarterly Labour Force Survey data (ISTAT) from 1993 to 1997 was used. The transition …
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Female Migration and Native Marital Stability: Insights from Italy
Vignoli, Daniele; Venturini, Alessandra; Pirani, Elena - 2015
In this paper, we argue that the size and the composition of the female migrant population in a given area can affect the marital stability of natives. We take Italy as a case-study and we offer discrete-time event history models predicting marital disruption on data from the nationally –...
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Widening differences in Italian regional unemployment
Brunello, Giorgio; Lupi, Claudio; Ordine, Patrizia - 1999
explain the observed phenomenon: a) employment performance in the South has worsened considerably in the presence of sustained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608518
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Does Low Skilled Immigration Increase Profits? Evidence from Italian Local Labour Markets
Brunello, Giorgio; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2019
We estimate the (causal) effects of low skill immigration on the performance of Italian manufacturing firms. We find that an increase of the local supply of low skilled immigrants by one thousand units – which corresponds to 8.5 percent of the mean value - raises profits on average by somewhat...
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