The project is articulated in six "work packages" (WPs), with the common objective of understanding how the migration phenomenon is associated with a generation or dispersion of value in the destination country.

• The first WP addresses the differences in poverty risk between immigrants and natives. Moreover, it will take advantage of the unprecedented availability of administrative data on the employment relationship population (INPS – The National Social Welfare Institute) to study the effect of migration on local labour markets, verify the presence of ethnic wage discrimination within companies and characterize ethnic networks as a factor promoting or hindering integration.
• The second WP focuses on inequalities in terms of access to health services; the effect on migrants' health and possible consequences. Available data sources such as the ISTAT (The Italian National Institute of Statistics) Survey on the condition and social integration of foreign citizens will be used, but also administrative sources provided by the Ministry of Health
• The third WP will focus on intervention models in the school environment. It will check whether foreign students, with equal skills, choose secondary schools that produce worse job careers than Italians. The effectiveness of a "light" information-based intervention will be tested through a randomised field experiment carried out in schools involving students in the third year of lower secondary school.
• The fourth WP will analyse the role of immigrants as value generators in the industrial world, with the help of longitudinal data on Italian companies. The effects of immigration and entrepreneurship of migrants on business productivity and innovation, the role of immigration in the geographical spread of trade shocks and in the determination of new consumption patterns in the countries hosting migrants will be analysed.
• The fifth WP, will look at the models of intervention to face the danger linked to crime. The policies of countries that export and import crime will be studied. A theoretical analysis will be developed that extends the classic result of "marginal deterrence" in a context where criminals are mobile and migration flows are determined by the relative severity of sanctions in different countries and the relative profitability of crime in each of them. Empirically, a new database will be exploited to cross-reference individual information on detainees, expenditure incurred in implementing intervention policies, and the severity of sanctions in each state.
• The Sixth WP will look at migration as an encounter of native and migrant cultural identities. Cultural diversity in the preferences between natives and migrants, the effects of immigration on society, culture, politics and the institutions of the destination country will be studied. Through the "Youth Report" of the Toniolo Institute, a focus will be dedicated to the new generations’ perception on the risks and benefits of immigration, the desired policies, and the usefulness of intercultural confrontation.

The dissemination of the results will have both a scientific and informative objective such as the organization of workshops and the publication of articles in high level international journals, thus contributing to the positioning of the University in national and international rankings.

Working group:

1. Bordignon Massimo - Department of Economics and Finance
2. Cappellari Lorenzo - Department of Economics and Finance
3. Crinò Rosario - Department of Economics and Finance
4. Lucifora Claudio - Department of Economics and Finance
5. Occhino Antonella - Department of Public and Private Economy Law
6. Piccolo Salvatore - Department of Economics and Finance
7. Rosina Alessandro - Department of Statistical Science
8. Barbetta Gianpaolo - Department of Economics and Finance
9. Mancusi Maria Luisa - Department of Economics and Finance
10. Corno Lucia - Department of Economics and Finance
11. Cottini Elena - Department of Economics and Finance
12. Moriconi Simone - Department of Economics and Finance
13. Gerhard Castro De Britto Diogo    
14. Aktas Koray    
15. Vigani Daria

Partner:

1. University College London - Regno Unito
2. London School of Economics and Political Science- Regno Unito
3. University of California, Davis - USA

Facoltà coinvolte:

• Faculty of Economics;
• Faculty of Law;
• Faculty of Political and Social Sciences.