Elementary Facts About Immigration in Italy. What Do We Know About Immigration and its Impact

Mariani, Rama Dasi; Pasquini, Annalisa; Rosati, Furio C.

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“…In Italy, immigrants are also more likely to work at low-skilled jobs (Mariani et al, 2020). In the Italian setting, where the immigrant population is markedly different compared to the native population, Alesina et al (2018) found that immigrant children receive lower teacher-assigned grades than natives after controlling for their performance on standardized tests.…”

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Barriers to Immigrant Assimilation: Evidence on Grading Bias in Ecuadorian High Schools

Rangel,

Marotta,

van der Werf

et al. 2024

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We investigate the assimilation of immigrant youth in Ecuador. Focusing on formal schooling and employing administrative data from high schools, we document subtle ways by which assessment biases against students with an immigrant background play a significant role in this assimilation process. We find that, after holding constant performance on blindly scored proficiency tests, teacher-assigned grades in Mathematics and Spanish are consistently lower for students from immigrant families. We show that these results are robust with respect to the omission of socio-emotional and behavioral traits that are likely valued by teachers. These differentials are larger for male students and those attending urban schools. While these grading differentials have direct impact over high school graduation rates, they may also discourage future human capital investments, potentially leading to lower college attendance, distorted choice of major, and sub-optimal labor market outcomes, which are all well know elements for the economic assimilation of immigrants.

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Barriers to Immigrant Assimilation: Evidence on Grading Bias in Ecuadorian High Schools

Rangel,

Marotta,

van der Werf

et al. 2024

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“…For a detailed analysis of immigrant location choice seeBartel (1989). For a description of the geographical distribution of immigrants in Italy seeMariani et al (2020) …”

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Immigrant supply of marketable child care and native fertility in Italy

Mariani

Rosati

2021

J. Dem. Econ.

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The availability of child-care services has often been advocated as one of the instruments to counter the fertility decline observed in many high-income countries. In the recent past, large inflows of low-skilled migrants have substantially increased the supply of child-care services. In this paper, we examine if immigration has actually affected fertility exploiting the natural experiment occurred in Italy in 2007, when a large inflow of migrants—many of them specialized in the supply of child care—arrived unexpectedly. With a difference-in-differences method, we show that immigrant female workers have increased native births by a number that ranges roughly from 2% to 4%. We validate our result by the implementation of an instrumental variable approach and several robustness tests, all concluding that the increase in the supply of child-care services by immigrant women has positively affected native fertility.

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Residential Mobility Within the Italian Metropolitan Areas in the 2000s. A Territorial Focus on Rome and Milan

Crisci,

Rimoldi,

Menonna

et al. 2024

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Elementary Facts About Immigration in Italy. What Do We Know About Immigration and its Impact

Cited by 3 publications

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Barriers to Immigrant Assimilation: Evidence on Grading Bias in Ecuadorian High Schools

Barriers to Immigrant Assimilation: Evidence on Grading Bias in Ecuadorian High Schools

Immigrant supply of marketable child care and native fertility in Italy

Residential Mobility Within the Italian Metropolitan Areas in the 2000s. A Territorial Focus on Rome and Milan

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