Fascist Ideology and Migrant Labor Exploitation

Gemma Dipoppa and Shanker Satyanath

No 1395, Working Papers from Barcelona School of Economics

Abstract: Official reports from the International Labor Organization have been increasingly highlighting the pervasive presence of forced labor, especially involving migrants, in the developed world. There is, however, little work explaining the demand-side determinants of modern forced labor. We address this gap by focusing on variations in modern forced labor within a single developed country (Italy). Regression discontinuity and triple differences designs show that modern forced labor is strongly associated with prior exposure to the ideology of the Italian Fascist regime (1922-43) which emphasized the subjugation of non-white ethnic groups (the primary subjects of forced labor).

Keywords: migration; ideology; political extremism; labor coercion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J7 J81 O15 P00 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-06
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