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    Title: Wage assimilation : migrants versus natives and foreign migrants versus internal migrants  Author(s): STRØM, Steinar; VENTURINI, Alessandra; VILLOSIO, Claudia Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: The paper wants to understand the assimilation pattern of foreign migrants in Italy. Three novelties characterize this study. First, the research compares the wage assimilation of international migrants with both internal ...
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    Title: The Public-Private Wage Differential in the West Bank and Gaza: Before and During the Second Intifada  Author(s): MIAARI, Sami H. Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper measures the public-private wage differential in the West Bank and Gaza and describes its dynamics before and during the second Intifada using data from the Palestinian Labour Force Survey (PLFS) of the Palestinian ...
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    Title: Are Foreign Migrants More Assimilated Than Native Ones?  Author(s): FAINI, Riccardo; STRØM, Steinar; VENTURINI, Alessandra; VILLOSIO, Claudia Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: IZA Discussion Papers Abstract: The novelties of the paper are two. First the paper compares the pattern of wage assimilation of foreigners with both native immigrants and local natives in Italy, a country with large internal and international migration. ...
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    Title: Reassessing Labor Market Reforms: Temporary Contracts as a Screening Device  Author(s): FACCINI, Renato Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: Standard models of temporary contracts are either inconclusive, or fail to ac- count for the positive correlation between temporary contracts and the employ- ment rate, and for the high transition rates into permanent ...
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    Title: Unemployment and Within-Group Wage Inequality: Can Information Explain the Trade-Off?  Author(s): FACCINI, Renato Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: In Italy, following WWII, speci c hiring procedures were developed that prevented rms from screening workers. More in particular, these institutions char- acterized the Italian labor market with respect to the US labor ...
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    Title: Sustainable Social Spending and Stagnant Public Services: Baumol’s Cost Disease Revisited  Author(s): VAN DER PLOEG, Frederick Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: If demand for human services is inelastic or manufactured goods are necessities, labour shifts from manufacturing to services and the budget share of services rises. Higher productivity growth in the market sector pushes ...