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The labor market effects of immigration and emigration in OECD countries

Docquier, Frédéric; Özden, Çağlar; Peri, Giovanni - 2011

In this paper, we simulate the labor market effects of net immigration and emigration during the 1990's in all OECD … wage effects of immigration and emigration. We use a range of parameter values spanning most of the estimates in the …, emigration had a negative effect on the wage of less educated native workers and it contributed to increase within country …

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The role of income and immigration policies in attracting international migrants

Ortega, Francesc; Peri, Giovanni - 2012

This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the determinants of international migration flows. First, we compile a new dataset on annual bilateral migration flows covering 15 OECD destination countries and 120 sending countries for the period 1980-2006. We also collect data on...

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Migration, trade and income

Ortega, Francesc; Peri, Giovanni - 2013

institutions and early development. Our instrumental-variables estimates provide evidence of a robust, positive effect of openness …

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The aggregate effects of trade and migration : evidence from OECD countries

Ortega, Francesc; Peri, Giovanni - 2011

Two large but separate bodies of literature analyze the economic effects of international trade and immigration. Given that several factors are important determinants of both trade and migration flows, the previous studies are vulnerable to a potentially serious omitted-variables bias,...

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Isolating the network effect of immigrants on trade

Aleksynska, Mariya; Peri, Giovanni - 2012

Within the migration-trade nexus literature, this paper proposes a more carefully defined measure of migration business networks, and quantifies its impact on bilateral trade. Using cross-sectional data and controlling for the overall bilateral stock of migrants, the share of migrants employed...

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The economic impact of migrants from Hurricane Maria

Peri, Giovanni; Rury, Derek; Wiltshire, Justin C. - 2020

Using a synthetic control estimation strategy we examine the economic impact of a large inflow of people from Puerto Rico into Orlando in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, which devastated Puerto Rico in September 2017. We find that aggregate employment in Orlando increased as a result of the...

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