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Emigration and Wages: The EU Enlargement Experiment
Elsner, Benjamin - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011
This paper studies the impact of a large emigration wave on real wages in the source country. Following EU enlargement … Lithuania for the calibration of a factor demand model I show that emigration had a significant short-run impact on real wages … in the source country. In particular, emigration led to a change in the wage distribution between young and old workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421229
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Migration, Cultural Diversity and Innovation: A European Perspective
Bosetti, Valentina; Cattaneo, Cristina; Verdolini, Elena - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
This paper analyses the effect of skilled migration on two measures of innovation, patenting and citations of scientific publications, in a panel of 20 European countries. Skilled migrants positively contribute to the knowledge formation in host countries as they add to the pool of skills in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010584502
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Does Emigration Benefit the Stayers? The EU Enlargement as a Natural Experiment. Evidence from Lithuania
Elsner, Benjamin - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
member states. Using data from the Lithuanian Household Budget Survey and the Irish Census, I find that emigration had a … point increase in the emigration rate increases the real wage of men on average by 1%. Several robustness checks confirm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008828393
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Rethinking the Gains from Immigration: Theory and Evidence from the U.S.
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Peri, Giovanni - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
The standard empirical analysis of immigration, based on a simple labor demand and labor supply framework, has emphasized the negative impact of foreign born workers on the average wage of U.S.-born workers (particularly of those without a high school degree). A precise assessment of the average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385506
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The Labor Market Impact of Immigration in Western Germany in the 1990’s
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Francesco D’Amuri; Peri, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008
We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004965200
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Immigration and National Wages: Clarifying the Theory and the Empirics
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I P; Peri, Giovanni - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008
This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national U.S. level. Following Borjas (2003) we focus on national labor markets for workers of different skills and we enrich his methodology and refine previous estimates. We emphasize that a production function...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004965208
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Intellectual Property Rights, Migration, and Diaspora
Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011
emigration from the South may directly result in the well-known concept of brain drain, it also causes a brain gain effect, the … workers there. By increasing the size of the innovation sector and the skill-intensity of emigration, IPRs protection makes it … correlation between emigration and innovation in the presence of strong IPRs protection. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320993
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Education, Reputation or Network? Evidence from Italy on Migrant Workers Employability
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna; Ponti, Giovanni - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
The strong adverse selection that immigrants face in hosting labour markets may induce them to adopt some behaviours or signals to modify employers’ beliefs. Relevant mechanisms for reaching this purpose are personal reputation; exploiting ethnic networks deeply-rooted in the hosting country;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005008017
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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008828392
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Child Labor and Resistance to Change
Bellettini, Giorgio; Ceroni, Carlotta Berti; Ottaviano, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
We study the interactions between technological innovation, investment in human capital and child labor. In our setting new technologies require new skills and new skills can be developed only through schooling. In a two-stage game, first firms decide on innovation, then households decide on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423060