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The Impact of Migration on Child Labor: Theory and Evidence from Brazil
Genicot, Garance; Mayda, Anna Maria; Mendola, Mariapia - 2016
This paper investigates the impact of internal migration on child labor outcomes in Brazil. We develop a theoretical … model and evaluate it on children aged 10 to 14 using two decades of Census data. In our model, migration impacts child … individual-level child-labor analysis with an empirical study of the labor-market impact of internal migration within Brazil. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653172
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The impact of migration on child labor : theory and evidence from Brazil
Génicot, Garance; Mayda, Anna Maria; Mendola, Mariapia - 2016
This paper investigates the impact of internal migration on child labor outcomes in Brazil. We develop a theoretical … model and evaluate it on children aged 10 to 14 using two decades of Census data. In our model, migration impacts child … individual-level child-labor analysis with an empirical study of the labor-market impact of internal migration within Brazil. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595849
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Why Are People More Pro-Trade than Pro-Migration?
Mayda, Anna Maria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
I analyze individual attitudes towards trade and immigration in comparative terms. I find that individuals are on average more pro-trade than pro-immigration across several countries. I identify a key source of this difference: the cleavage in trade preferences, absent in immigration attitudes,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822722
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395509
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South-South Migration and the Labor Market: Evidence from South Africa
Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria; Mendola, Mariapia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010652487
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010561647
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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). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640988
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Who Is Against Immigration? : A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants
Mayda, Anna Maria - 2004
This paper empirically analyzes both economic and non-economic determinants of attitudes toward immigrants, within and across countries. The two individual-level survey data sets used, covering a wide range of developed and developing countries, make it possible to test for interactive effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261871
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Individual attitudes towards immigrants: welfare-state determinants across countries
Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria - 2006
relationships have the opposite signs in economies characterized by skilled migration (relative to the native population). Such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263954
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Individual attitudes towards immigrants: welfare-state determinants across countries
Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria - 2006
relationships have the opposite signs in economies characterized by skilled migration (relative to the native population). Such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267885