Research

Work in progress

Brugiavini A., Naci R., Pasini G., "Labor Market and Immigrants Naturalization"

We analyze the labor market consequences of changes in the citizenship eligibility requirements; we use variation in residency requirements induced by citizenship reforms in Germany and Austria to look for the intention to treat effect. We can rely on exogenous variation in eligibility rules from national immigration reforms by the two countries with two opposite directions: a more liberal approach in Germany and a stricter one in Austria. We use the Survey of Health Retirement and Ageing in Europe (SHARE) to create a retrospective panel dataset for individuals living in the two countries during the reforms. This allows us to use a Regression Discontinuity approach exploiting the change in the years of residence threshold required for naturalization. The evidence shows that being eligible for naturalization is associated with higher employment rates in both countries; moreover, this effect increases in the German case after reducing the years of residence required for naturalization. 

Working paper

Brugiavini A.,  Mesfin G. G., Naci R., Orso C., Pasini G., "Combining the Retrospective Interviews of Wave 3 and Wave 7: The Third Release of the SHARE Job Episodes Panel",  vol. 36, pp. 1-18 (SHARE Working Paper Series): doi:10.6103/SHARE.jep.710

Data about working life histories, migration histories, fertility histories and marriage/cohabitation histories collected in the third wave of the SHARE survey were organised into a retrospective panel as described in Brugiavini, Cavapozzi, Pasini, and Trevisan (2013) and Antonova, Aranda, Pasini, and Trevisan (2014). In wave 7 respondents from the new countries were included in the survey and refresher sample respondents from the “old” countries were administered the retrospective questionnaire for the first time. We now combine all the life histories into a single panel dataset and add a new variable reporting the working/non-working condition each year. 

Naci R. “Culture and Financial Market Participation: comparing the second generation of migrants from EU countries and East Europe”, Working Papers Department of Economics Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, No. 06/WP/2022, ISSN: 1827-3580

This paper compares and evaluates the second generation of immigrants participating in the financial market with respect to their country of origin and in comparison to natives. Financial market participation differs significantly across countries, and the cultural dimensions could be a potential factor for that. In order to assess if this dimension matters, we exploited the influence that the socialist regime has had on the citizens of the East European countries. These individuals have grown a particular institutional context that has shaped a different culture regarding Western European countries. We rely on this heterogeneity and its intergenerational transmission to look for differences in the financial market participation. We show how simple theoretical models include in their specification coefficient for risk aversion, time preference, and trust. They can be the channel through which the cultural dimensions matter in the financial market participation. We show no difference in the financial market participation between the second generation of immigrants from EU countries and natives. At the same time, this difference is present when we compare them to the second generation from East European countries. Risk aversion and labor income seems to play the primary role in this heterogeneity in the financial market participation.