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Immigrants' contribution to innovativeness : evidence from a non-selective immigration country

Candel-Haug, Katharina; Cuntz, Alexander; Falck, Oliver - 2018

The economic consequences of migration are hotly debated and a main topic of recent populist movements across Europe … identification, we exploit a historical episode in the Polish migration history to Germany before the fall of the Iron Curtain and … construct a shift-share instrument. Our results differ from findings for high-skilled migration to the United States, which is …

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Not welcome anymore : the effect of electoral incentives on the reception of refugees

Gamalerio, Matteo - 2018

Do electoral incentives affect immigration policies? I study this question in the setting of Italian municipalities making decisions about the reception of refugees. The localized control of the reception policy (SPRAR), combined with the exogenous timing of policy decisions and staggered...

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Managing migration through conflicting policies : an option-theory perspective

Moretto, Michele; Vergalli, Sergio - 2009

Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … relax limits for immigrants in order to control migration inflows better. To this end, we use a real option approach to … migration choice that assumes that the decision to migrate can be described as an irreversible investment decision. In our model …

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Self-confirming immigration policy

Giordani, Paolo E.; Ruta, Michele - 2012

We study immigration policy in a small receiving economy under self-selection of migrants. We show that a non-discriminatory immigration policy choice affects and is affected by the migratory decisions of skilled and unskilled foreign workers. From this interaction multiple equilibria may arise,...

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Immigration and economic growth in the OECD countries 1986 - 2006

Boubtane, Ekrame; Dumont, Jean-Christophe; Rault, Christophe - 2015

This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986 …-2006 and relies on a unique data set we compiled that allows us to distinguish net migration of the native- and foreign …-born populations by skill level. Specifically, after introducing migration in an augmented Solow-Swan model, we estimate a dynamic …

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Immigration, growth and unemployment : panel VAR evidence from OECD countries

Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - 2013

results provide evidence of migration contribution to host economic prosperity (positive impact on GDP per capita and negative … impact on aggregate unemployment, native- and foreign-born unemployment rates). We also find that migration is influenced by … host economic conditions (migration responds positively to host GDP per capita and negatively to host total unemployment …

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Immigration, unemployment and growth in the host country : bootstrap panel granger causality analysis on OECD countries

Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - 2013

This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host country. We employ the panel Granger causality testing approach of Konya (2006) that is based on SUR systems and Wald tests with country specific bootstrap critical values. This...

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Immigration and the distribution of incomes

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2013

Immigration may impact income distribution both by affecting the skill composition of a country's residents, and, by changing relative factor supplies, its relative factor prices. We provide some background evidence on compositional factors but focus primarily on factor prices. We first consider...

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Returns to citizenship? : Evidence from Germany's recent immigration reforms

Gathmann, Christina; Keller, Nicolas - 2014

Immigrants in many countries have lower employment rates and lower earnings than natives. We study whether a more liberal access to citizenship improves the economic integration of immigrants. Our analysis relies on two major immigration reforms in Germany, a country with a weak record of...

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On the economics and politics of refugee migration

Dustmann, Christian; Fasani, Francesco; Frattini, Tommaso; … - 2016

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of refugee migration, with emphasis on the current refugee crisis. After …

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