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To Europe or not to Europe? : migration and public support for joining the European Union in the Western Balkans
Ivlevs, Artjoms; King, Roswitha Maria - 2019
For decades, countries aspiring to join the European Union (EU) have been linked to it through migration. Yet little is known about how migration affects individual support for joining the EU in prospective member states. We explore the relationship between migration and support for EU accession...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011996339
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The working hours of immigrants in Germany : temporary versus permanent
Kahanec, Martin; Shields, Michael P. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-15
Migration is often viewed as an investment decision. Temporary migrants can be expected to invest less in accumulating human capital specific to the host country. Instead, they work more hours in order to accumulate savings and invest in financial capital that can be transferred back to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786192
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The economic effects of refugee return
Dadush, Uri - 2018
The recent surge in the number of forcibly displaced persons who cross international borders in search of protection has prompted interest in evaluating policies that achieve the possible “end points” of the phenomenon. These are the integration of the forcibly displaced persons in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853430
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The economic effects of refugee return
Dadush, Uri - 2018
The recent surge in the number of forcibly displaced persons who cross international borders in search of protection has prompted interest in evaluating policies that achieve the possible "end points" of the phenomenon. As envisaged by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011799643
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Immigration and crime : new empirical evidence from European victimization data
Nunziata, Luca - 2014
whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality among European natives. Using data from the … simulations. Our empirical findings show that an increase in immigration does not affect crime victimization, but it is associated … with an increase in the fear of crime, the latter being consistently and positively correlated with the natives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434459
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Female migration and native marital stability : insights from Italy
Vignoli, Daniele; Venturini, Alessandra; Pirani, Elena - 2015
the marital stability of natives. We take Italy as a case-study and we offer discrete-time event history models predicting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347111
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Are immigrants competing with natives in the Italian labour market? : the employment effect
Venturini, Alessandra; Villosio, Claudia - 2002
possible autocorrelation and endogeneity. The results show that in the northern part of Italy, where most immigrants are … effect prevails, while there is a negative effect only in the manufacturing sector in Northern Italy for 1996. This effect …
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Digging up trenches : populism, selective mobility, and the political polarization of Italian municipalities
Bellodi, Luca; Docquier, Frédéric; Iandolo, Stefano; … - 2024
We study the effect of local exposure to populism on net population movements by citizenship status, gender, age and education level in the context of Italian municipalities. We present two research designs to estimate the causal effect of populist attitudes and politics. Initially, we use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014462133
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Self-selection and the performance of return migrants: The case of Albania
Coulon, Augustin de; Piracha, Matloob - 2002
In this paper, using the framework of a Roy theoretical model, we examine the performance of return migrants in Albania. We ask two questions: (i) Had they chosen not to migrate, what would be the performance of return migrants compared to the non-migrants? and (ii) What would be the performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290686
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To Europe or Not to Europe? Migration and Public Support for Joining the European Union in the Western Balkans
Ivlevs, Artjoms; King, Roswitha M. - 2019
For decades, countries aspiring to join the European Union (EU) have been linked to it through migration. Yet little is known about how migration affects individual support for joining the EU in prospective member states. We explore the relationship between migration and support for EU accession...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005955