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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,...

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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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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). …

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The Impact of Skilled Foreign Workers on Firms: An Investigation of Publicly Traded U.S. Firms

Ghosh, Anirban; Mayda, Anna Maria; Ortega, Francesc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Many U.S. businessmen are vocally in favor of an increase in the number of H-1B visas. Is there systematic evidence that this would positively affect firms' productivity, sales, employment or profits? To address these questions we assemble a unique dataset that matches all labor condition...

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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

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

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria; Mendola, Mariapia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

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

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Who is Against Immigration? A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants

Mayda, Anna Maria - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 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...

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Why are people more pro-trade than pro-migration?

Mayda, Anna Maria - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2006

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 di.erence: the cleavage in trade preferences, absent in immigration attitudes,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971280

International migration: A panel data analysis of the determinants of bilateral flows

Mayda, Anna Maria - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2007

In this paper I empirically investigate the determinants of migration inflows into fourteen OECD countries by country … of origin, between 1980 and 1995. I analyze the effect on migration of average income and income dispersion in … played by changes in destination countries' migration policies. My analysis both delivers estimates consistent with the …

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