This paper investigates the relationship between native internal mobility and immigration in Italy, in order to gain a … better understanding of the impact of immigration on local labour markets and to gauge the consequences for the socio … addressed using proximity to “gateways” as the instrumental variable. We find that immigration is positively associated with …

While there is a vast literature considering the labour market effects of immigration, less has been done to … investigate how immigration affects the educational choices of young natives. Using Italian provincial data and an instrumental … variables strategy, we show that the recent increase in the immigration of low skilled labour has produced human capital …

low skilled immigration in Italy may have hampered the transition to an economic structure characterized by high …We estimate the (causal) effects of low skill immigration on the performance of Italian manufacturing firms. We find …