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Migration and Trade in a World of Technological Differences: Theory with an Application to Eastern-Western European Integration
Peri, Giovanni; Iranzo, Susana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
between industrializing and industrialized countries. Due to restrictive laws in the receiving countries and high migration … costs, the increase in international migration has involved mainly highly educated workers. During the same period … phenomena of migration and trade in a world where countries use different skill-specific technologies and workers have different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828773
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Immigrants' Complementarities and Native Wages: Evidence from California
Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
responses of natives we use a novel instrumental variable strategy. Our estimates use migration by skill group to other U ….S. states as instrument for migration to California. Migratory flows to other states, in fact, share the same "push" factors as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830621
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A Meta-Analytic Assessment of the Effect of Immigration on Wages
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
In our increasingly interconnected and open world, international migration is becoming an important socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256215
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Immigration, Search, and Redistribution: A Quantitative Assessment of Native Welfare
Peri, Giovanni; Battisti, Michele; Felbermayr, Gabriel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
in two thirds of countries, contrary to what models without search frictions predict. Median total gains from migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010774298
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The Wage Effects of Immigration and Emigration
Peri, Giovanni; Docquier, Frédéric; Özden, Çaǧlar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
database of bilateral stocks and net migration flows of immigrants and emigrants by education level for the years 1990 through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008776836
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Rethinking the Gains from Immigration: Theory and Evidence from the U.S.
Peri, Giovanni; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
Recent influential empirical work has emphasized the negative impact immigrants have on the wages of U.S.-born workers, arguing that immigration harms less educated American workers in particular and all U.S.-born workers in general. Because U.S. and foreign born workers belong to different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778650
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Rethinking the Effects of Immigration on Wages
Peri, Giovanni; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
This paper asks the following question: what was the effect of surging immigration on average and individual wages of U.S.-born workers during the period 1990-2004? We emphasize the need for a general equilibrium approach to analyze this problem. The impact of immigrants on wages of U.S.-born...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005575375
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Task Specialization, Comparative Advantages, and the Effects of Immigration on Wages
Peri, Giovanni; Sparber, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Many workers with low levels of educational attainment immigrated to the United States in recent decades. Large inflows of less-educated immigrants would reduce wages paid to comparably-educated native-born workers if the two groups compete for similar jobs. In a simple model exploiting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005575721
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The Labor Market Impact of Immigration in Western Germany in the 1990's
Peri, Giovanni; D'Amuri, Francesco; Ottaviano, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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/10005575898
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Immigration and National Wages: Clarifying the Theory and the Empirics
Peri, Giovanni; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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/10005580209