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Università della Svizzera italiana

Immigration policy and immigrants' sleep : evidence from DACA

Giuntella, Osea ; Lonsky, Jakub ; Mazzonna, Fabrizio ; Stella, Luca

In: Journal of economic behavior and organization, 2021, vol. 182, no. February, p. 12 p

Stress is associated with sleep problems and poor sleep is linked to mental health and depression symptoms. The stress associated with immigrant status and immigration policy can directly affect mental health. While previous studies have documented the significant relationship between immigration policy and the physical and mental health of immigrants, we know little about the effects of...

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Revisiting native and immigrant entrepreneurial activity

Lassmann, Andrea ; Busch, Christian

In: Small Business Economics, 2015, vol. 45, no. 4, p. 841-873

Università della Svizzera italiana

Between utopian image and heterotopic reality : thinking/imagining participatory planning (and also hospitality) starting from reality

Bevilacqua, Maria Giovanna

In: Proceedings, 2017, vol. 1, no. 9, p. 873

Utopia is a place that does not exist; utopia is a non-existent model society in a non-existent model space. Utopia is an image. According to the definition given by Michel Foucault, hétéropies, unlike utopias, are places that actually exist. Heterotopies are at the same time non-physical and real and physical spaces. In the modern Western world, characterised by multiculturalism and by an...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Three essays in economics of catastrophes

Slerca, Edoardo ; Jametti, Mario (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2018 ; 2018ECO013.

Many events can have a catastrophic effect on an economic environment, such as natural disasters, wars, migrations, pandemic diseases, etc. This thesis focuses on three of them: catastrophic agglomeration of firms as a response to tax differentials, immigration phenomena described as catastrophic by the natives and catastrophic earthquakes with destructive consequences for both physical and...