Does Immigration Raise Blue and White Collar Wages of Natives? The Case of Italy

Staffolani, Stefano; Valentini, Enzo

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9914.2010.00491.x

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“…Our results on the differences in performance between foreigners and Italians during the crisis seem to confirm, albeit from a different perspective, what much empirical evidence has indicated in recent years regarding the trend towards a complementary rather than competitive predominant effect of foreigners (Venturini and Villosio 2006;Romiti 2011;Staffolani and Valentini 2010). But problems remain open concerning the penalisation of foreigners compared to Italians (Fullin and Reyneri 2011) which did not increase during the crisis but remains significant.…”

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The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Foreigners in the Italian Labour Market

Bonifazi¹,

Marini²

2013

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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This paper sets out to evaluate the effects of the economic crisis on foreign workers in Italy. Unlike other countries, in Italy the number of foreign workers has increased during the crisis. Taking the relative measures into account, it is evident that the crisis has affected male foreigners more than Italian workers. The longitudinal data of the Labour Force Survey allow the labour market transitions before and during the employment crisis to be taken into consideration. These data show that the crisis has mainly hit male workers, and in particular foreigners. The application of multinomial logistic regression models to employment transitions shows that, maintaining structural variables under control, the penalisation of foreigners has not changed during the crisis. This is certainly due to the specific impact of the crisis on the Italian economy, but also the structural role that foreigners play in the labour market.

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The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Foreigners in the Italian Labour Market

Bonifazi¹,

Marini²

2013

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…While studies performed by Borjas and Card have focused on immigration into the U.S., several studies focus on European immigration. Staffolani and Valentini (2010) examine the impact of immigration on the Italian labor market. They assert that all natives in the so-called "regular sector" experience increased wages with immigration flows.…”

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The effects of international migration on the well-being of native populations in Europe

Betz

Simpson

2013

IZA J Migration

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Very little is understood about how immigrants affect the happiness, or subjective well-being of natives. We use the European Social Survey to analyze the effects of aggregate immigration flows on the subjective well-being of native-born populations in a panel of 26 countries between 2002 and 2010. We find that recent immigrant flows have a nonlinear, yet overall positive impact on the well-being of natives, with the largest effects coming from immigrant flows arriving in the previous year. Our results are small in magnitude and in practical application; only large immigrant flows would affect native well-being significantly. JEL codes: F22, I31, O15

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“…Several studies have pointed out how immigrants' access to the Italian labour market has in fact had an overall positive effect on average wage levels (Gavosto et al, 1999), even for unskilled native workers (Staffolani and Valentini, 2010). Analyses of migrants in the labour market point not to a situation of competition with Italian nationals but to one of complementarity and gradual substitution (Calavita, 2004;Reyneri, 2004).…”

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Mainstream parties and the politics of immigration in Italy: A structural advantage for the right or a missed opportunity for the left?

Massetti

2014

Acta Polit

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The structure of the Italian party system pushes the mainstream right and left to adopt different strategies on immigration in spite of a certain ideological and definite policy convergence. First, in a context of bipolar competition, the mainstream right prefers to cooperate, rather than compete, with the anti-immigrant radical right. Second, while the mainstream left dominates the centre-left coalition, the mainstream right has found itself subject to and torn by the populist tendencies of the centre-right coalition leader Silvio Berlusconi. The analysis shows that the mainstream left has endorsed concerns over security and border control, while remaining open to the social, cultural and (to a lesser extent) political integration of immigrants. In contrast, the mainstream right has appeared increasingly split between a component ‘contaminated’ by Berlusconi, which makes some concessions to the radical right; and a moderate component, which is more sensitive to liberal ideas and/or to the solidaristic remarks of the Catholic Church. The reality of the Italian welfare system and labour market would appear to create more favourable conditions for the ideological approach of the mainstream left. However, the mainstream right has benefited from its alliance with the radical right as it has constantly owned the immigration issue

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Does Immigration Raise Blue and White Collar Wages of Natives? The Case of Italy

Cited by 24 publications

References 27 publications

The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Foreigners in the Italian Labour Market

The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Foreigners in the Italian Labour Market

The effects of international migration on the well-being of native populations in Europe

Mainstream parties and the politics of immigration in Italy: A structural advantage for the right or a missed opportunity for the left?

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