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Asylum Seekers in Europe: The Warm Glow of a Hot Potato

Facchini, Giovanni; Lorz, Oliver; Willmann, Gerald - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2005

The Common European Asylum System calls for increased coordination of the EU countries’ policies towards asylum seekers and refugees. In this paper, we provide a formal analysis of the effects of coordination, explicitly modelling the democratic process through which policy is determined. In a...

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Spending more is spending less: on the desirability of enforcing migration

Facchini, Giovanni; Casarico, Alessandra; Frattini, Tommaso - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 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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What Drives U.S. Immigration Policy? Evidence from Congressional Roll Call Votes

Facchini, Giovanni; Steinhardt, Max - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Immigration is one of the most hotly debated policy issues in the United States today. Despite marked divergence of opinions within political parties, several important immigration reforms were introduced in the post 1965 era. The purpose of this paper is to systematically analyze the drivers of...

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The rhetoric of closed borders: quotas, lax enforcement and illegal migration

Facchini, Giovanni; testa, cecilia - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2010

-elected, and strategically relax its enforcement. The control of migration flows can take place at the border or domestically, and …

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What Drives Individual Attitude towards Immigration in South Africa?

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria; Mendola, Mariapia - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2011

public opinion on migration is affected by the potential labor market competition of migrants towards natives. We investigate … this issue by estimating the impact of survey respondents’ individual skill on their pro-migration attitudes. Our estimates …

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What drives US Immigration Policy? Evidence from Congressional Roll Call Votes

Facchini, Giovanni; Steinhardt, Max - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2010

Immigration is today one of the most hotly debated policy issues in the United States. Despite marked divergence of opinion even within political parties, several important reforms have been in-troduced in the post 1965 era. The purpose of this paper is to carry out a systematic analysis of the...

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From Individual Attitudes towards Migrants to Migration Policy Outcomes: Theory and Evidence

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

analyzing patterns in public opinion on migration and find that, across countries of different income levels, only a small … minority of voters favour more open migration policies. Next we investigate the determinants of voters' preferences towards … examines how attitudes translate into a migration policy outcome. We consider two alternative political-economy frameworks: the …

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Illegal Immigration and Media Exposure: Evidence on Individual Attitudes

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria; Puglisi, Riccardo - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2009

Illegal immigration has been the focus of much debate in receiving countries, but little is known about what drives individual attitudes towards illegal immigrants. To study this question, we use the CCES survey, which was carried out in 2006 in the United States. We find evidence that - in...

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Individual Attitudes towards Skilled Migration: an Empirical Analysis across Countries

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2009

this paper we analyze the factors that affect a direct measure of individual attitudes towards skilled migration, focusing …

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Does the Welfare State Affect Individual Attitudes towards Immigrants? Evidence Across Countries

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2007

relationships have the opposite signs in economies characterized by skilled migration (relative to the native population). These …

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