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On the Response of Inflation and Monetary Policy to an Immigration Shock
Garcia, Benjamin - 2020
An immigration shock has an ambiguous effect on inflation. On one hand, aggregate consumption increases with a suddenly …. The response of an inflation-targeting central bank to an immigration shock is, therefore, not obvious. We study these … country that has experienced a substantial immigration flow in recent years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834823
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Local signals and the returns to foreign education
Tani, Massimiliano - 2015
This paper exploits a quasi-experiment to shed light on whether the wage penalty experienced by migrants reflects poor schooling quality in the country of education or employers' discrimination in the host country. The quasi-experiment is the possibility for migrants to undertake an official...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428042
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Heterogeneous technology diffusion and ricardian trade patterns
Kerr, William R. - 2016
Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel estimates connecting country-industry productivity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568775
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Less welfare or fewer foreigners? : immigrant inflows and public opinion towards redistribution and migration policy
Murard, Elie - 2017
immigration policy over the last decade. Unlike previous studies, I analyze the evolution over time of these two types of … essentially on how immigration is perceived to affect wages and net welfare benefits. Specifically, I find that, when immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664508
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Immigration and the slope of the labor demand curve : the role of firm heterogeneity in a model of regional labor markets
Ariu, Andrea; Müller, Tobias; Nguyen, Tuan - 2023
natives' wages, and that skilled immigration can actually increase them. We develop a model with regional labor markets and … migrants are perfect substitutes within a firm. In this setting, a skilled labor supply shock due to immigration has two … wage adjustments. Second, the average native's wage can be partially sheltered from the negative effect of immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249909
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Immigration, monopsony and the distribution of firm pay
Amior, Michael; Stuhler, Jan - 2023
in wage premia and employment across the firm pay distribution, during a large immigration wave in Germany. These adverse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014446109
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Regional inequality and human capital quality : the impact of technology on the arrival rate of employment offers
Alexiadis, Stilianos; Eleftheriou, Konstantinos; … - 2013
This paper aims to provide a conceptual and operational context for analysing regional inequalities. It does so by utilizing a 'search & matching' framework. The model, developed in this paper, maps the way in which individuals are distributed according to: 1) the abilities of individuals to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224797
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Spatial sorting : conference paper
Eeckhout, Jan; Pinheiro, Roberto; Schmidheiny, Kurt - 2013
We investigate the role of complementarities in production and skill mobility across cities. We propose a general equilibrium model of location choice by heterogeneously skilled workers, and consider different degrees of complementarities between the skills of workers. The nature of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337849
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Education, Unemployment and Migration
Eggert, Wolfgang - 2009
This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are endogenous. The poorer region exhibits both lower wages and higher unemployment rates, and migrants to the richer region are disproportionately skilled. The brain drain from the poor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012766901
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Imperfect Mobility
Cai, Zhengyu - 2020
This study investigates why the strong form of the spatial equilibrium is weakly supported in the literature. Using a discrete choice model, it shows that the strong form of the spatial equilibrium is rarely observed because workers are imperfectly mobile from the perspective of researchers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826016