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Economic migration with matching frictions and business cycle amplification

Lozej, Matija - In: Understanding migration with macroeconomics, (pp. 223-249). 2020

Migration interacts with the domestic labour market through the increase in labour supply from immigration when labour … economy where there is no migration, such mechanism can lead to a substantial amplification of business cycle fluctuations …

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Doing business in the shadows : informal firms, irregular immigrants and the government

Kyrkopoulou, Eleni; Palybos, Theodōros - In: Understanding migration with macroeconomics, (pp. 161-186). 2020

. For this purpose, they use a search and matching model with two sectors, a formal and an informal one. Native workers can …

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Productivity shocks, VAT hikes and emigration

Bandeira, Guilherme; Caballé, Jordi; Vella, Eugenia - In: Understanding migration with macroeconomics, (pp. 187-222). 2020

rates. Using a small open economy model with search and matching frictions, endogenous migration and sticky prices, they … higher than in an economy without migration. However, these effects are significantly smaller than in the case of labour …

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The impact of immigration on productivity

Llull, Joan - In: Understanding migration with macroeconomics, (pp. 27-58). 2020

Llull presents a cross-country analysis of the impact of immigration on productivity and employment. Push-distance interactions provide relevant and exogenous variation for identification. Results suggest that a 1 percentage point increase in the share of immigrants in the population reduces GDP...

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