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International Labor Mobility and Child Work in Developing Countries

Paoli, Anna De; Mendola, Mariapia - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2014

This paper investigates the labor market effect of international migration on child work in countries of origin. We use … an original cross-country survey dataset, which combines information on international migration with detailed individual …

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Employment of Undocumented Immigrants and the Prospect of Legal Status: Evidence from an Amnesty Program

Devillanova, Carlo; Fasani, Francesco; Frattini, Tommaso - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2014

This paper estimates the causal effect of the prospect of legal status on the employment outcomes of undocumented immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits a natural experiment provided by the 2002 amnesty program in Italy that introduced an exogenous discontinuity in eligibility based on...

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The Fiscal Effects of Immigration to the UK

Dustmann, Christian; Frattini, Tommaso - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi …

In this paper, we investigate the fiscal impact of immigration on the UK economy, with a focus on the period since 1995. We provide estimates for the overall immigrant population for the period between 1995 and 2012, and for more recent immigrants who arrived since 2000, distinguishing between...

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Mind What Your Voters Read: Media Exposure and International Economic Policy Making

Facchini, Giovanni; Frattini, Tommaso; Signorotto, Cora - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2013

’s accountability when it comes to migration policy making, while we find no effect for trade policy. Our results thus suggest that more …

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he Political Economy of Trade and Migration: Evidence from the U.S. Congress

Conconi, Paola; Facchini, Giovanni; Steinhardt, Max F.; … - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2012

barriers and comparatively liberal migration policies have made these developments possible. What drove US congressmen to … political economy of trade and migration, in this paper we find that important similarities should not be overlooked. In … to support a more open migration stance than their Republican counterparts, whereas the opposite is true for trade …

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Spending More is Spending Less: Policy Dilemmas on Irregular Migration

Casarico, Alessandra; Facchini, Giovanni; Frattini, Tommaso - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2012

We study the migration policy set by a welfare maximizing government in a model where immigrant workers differ in their …

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Does International Migration Increase Child Labor?

Paoli, Anna De; Mendola, Mariapia - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2012

Global international migration may influence child labor through a labor market effect. We empirically investigate this …-level characteristics, remittances, and country fixed effects, our findings are consistent with predictions and show that international out-migration …

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South-South Migration and the Labor Market: Evidence from South Africa

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria; Mendola, Mariapia - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2012

Using census data for 1996, 2001 and 2007 we study the labor market effect of immigration in South Africa. In this period the share of foreign born over the total population has grown by almost fifty percent, and both the characteristics and geographical distribution of immigrants show...

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South-South migration and the labor market: Evidence from South Africa

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria; Mendola, Mariapia - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2013

contributes to a small but growing literature on the impact of South-South migration by looking at one of the most attractive … of natives to other districts as a consequence of migration, as in Borjas (2006). …

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A Firm-Level Perspective on Migration

Bettin, Giulia; Turco, Alessia Lo; Maggioni, Daniela - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2012

A production-theory approach to migration is adopted in this paper to address the role of migrant workers from extra …

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