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| nep-mig | New EconomicsPapers |
| on Economics of Human Migration |
| Issue of 2017‒01‒08
seventeen papers chosen by
Yuji Tamura
La Trobe University
http://econpapers.repec.org/pta90
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- Community Leaders and thePreservation of Cultural TraitsAnja Prummer;
Jan-PeterSiedlarek
- Child-Rearing Practices ofRussian-Speaking Women from a Migration
PerspectiveRaisaAkifyeva
- A cohort integration analysis ofwork and education participation among
internal mobile and non-mobile immigrantsby reason for immigrationLasse
Sigbjørn Stambøl
- Age at Immigration Matters forLabor Market Integration: The Swedish
ExampleGustafsson, BjörnAnders; Mac Innes, Hanna; Österberg, Torun
- Educational outcomes and immigrantbackgroundSara Flisi; Elena Claudia
Meroni; EsperanzaVera-Toscano
- The Labour Market Effect ofImmigration: Accounting for Effective Immigrant
Work Experience in NewZealandTse, Michael M. H.; Maani, Sholeh A.
- Glass Ceiling Effect in UrbanChina: Wage Inequality of Rural-Urban
Migrants during2002-2007Qu, Zhaopeng (Frank); Zhao, Zhong
- Do Immigrants Compete with Nativesin the Greek Labour Market? Evidence
from the Skill-Cell Approach Before andDuring the Great RecessionChletsos,
Michael; Roupakias,Stelios
- Can Immigrants Insure againstShocks as well as the Native-born?Asadul
Islam; Steven Stillman;Christopher Worswick
- Does Information Change AttitudesTowards Immigrants? Representative
Evidence from SurveyExperimentsGrigorieff, Alexis; Roth, Christopher;
Ubfal,Diego
- Multilateral mechanism analysis ofinterprovincial migration flows in
ChinaYingxia Pu; YingGe
- Countering Public Opposition toImmigration: The Impact of Information
CampaignsFacchini,Giovanni; Margalit, Yotam; Nakata, Hiroyuki
- Internal migration and EU regionalpolicy transfer payments: A panel data
analysis for the EU-28 membercountriesPeter Schmidt
- Immigration ? a way out of theSwedish rural population crisis?Mats
Johansson
- Post-Enlargement Migration and theGreat Recession in the E(M)U: Lessons
and policyimplicationsKahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F.
- Refugees and rural development:Chances from migration and challenges of
integrationPollermann,Kim
- Jobs, cime, and votes: A short-runevaluation of the refugee crisis in
GermanyGehrsitz, Markus;Ungerer, Martin
- Community Leadersand the Preservation of Cultural Traits
| Date: | 2016-12 |
| By: | Anja Prummer (Queen Mary University of London) ; Jan-Peter
Siedlarek (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland) |
| We explain persistent differences in cultural traits ofimmigrant groups
with the presence of community leaders. Leaders influence thecultural traits of
their community, which have an impact on the group'searnings. They determine
whether a community will be more assimilated andwealthier or less assimilated
and poorer. With a leader cultural integrationremains incomplete. The leader
chooses more distinctive cultural traits in highproductivity environments and
if the community is more connected. Lump sumtransfers to immigrants can hinder
cultural integration. These findings are inline with integration patterns of
various ethnic and religious groups. |
| Keywords: | Cultural transmission, Leadership, Immigrants, Labor
market outcomes,Social influence, Networks |
| JEL: | J15 Z10 D02 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:qmw:qmwecw:wp806&r=mig ;|
- Child-RearingPractices of Russian-Speaking Women from a
MigrationPerspective
| Date: | 2016 |
| By: | Raisa Akifyeva (National Research University Higher School
ofEconomics) |
| This working paper is based on the results of a study of
thechild-rearing practices of Russian-speaking women in the context of a
migrationperspective focusing on their migration experience, language, and
other featuresthat are perceived as cultural and an integration context as
determining manyimportant aspects of child-rearing. The analysis shows that a
mother’s choiceof structured activities for the child can be caused by
structural factors, suchas the national peculiarities of the system of school
and pre-school education,family policy, the specifics and set of programs
offered at schools andavailable in the area. Regardless of the social segment,
in which migrants areincorporated, children begin to prefer speaking Spanish
than Russian if there isnot any special effort from the adults. This leads to
the fact that the study ofthe Russian language in some families affects all
spheres of life, and manyaspects of child-rearing. Many women develop and share
ideas about thedifferences in the parenting approach and style of women from
the post-Sovietspace and from Spain. Women perceive the stylistic features of
the behavior ofRussian women as highly demanding and share the view of the low
demands ofSpanish parents, yet differ in how they perceive their level of
responsivenessto them. |
| Keywords: | child-rearing practices, Russian-speaking migrants,
structuredactivities, parenting practices, Spain |
| JEL: | F22 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hig:wpaper:140/hum/2016&r=mig ;|
- A cohortintegration analysis of work and education participation among
internal mobileand non-mobile immigrants by reason forimmigration
| Date: | 2016-12 |
| By: | Lasse Sigbjørn Stambøl |
| Abstract: The aim of the paper is to analyse immigrants?participation
versus non-participation in the regional labour markets and/or ineducation. For
comparison we have followed groups of immigrants by their reasonfor
immigration, like refugees, labor-, family- and education-immigrants andNordic
immigrants with special focus on those who do not move domesticallybetween
labor market regions versus those who make such regional relocations.
Weinvestigate whether migration contribute to change the labor market status
ofimmigrants using a ?cohort-analysis?, where we follow selected arrival
cohortsof immigrants through some years after they immigrated for the first
time. Theinvestigation is a ?two-way analysis?, dependent on each immigrant?s
initiallabor market status. For those who are not active in any job or
education, weanalyze their probability of entering any activity statuses, and
for thosealready in activity, we analyze their ability to maintain their
activity status.Both dimensions are important for the immigrants? level of
integration. Theanalysis is based on micro panel data measured by means of a
complete annualregional vacancy account for each of the years involved in the
study. These dataand methods allow us to specify each immigrant?s annual labor
market status,thus also each immigrant's annual change of labor market status.
The resultsindicate that domestic migration is partial beneficial for
immigrants to obtainemployment or to carry out an education. The effect of
relocation as the ease ofaccess varies, however, according to the immigrants?
reason for immigration.Immigrants who remain outside of employment and/or
education is mostly to befound among refugees, family-immigrants and immigrants
with unspecified reasonfor immigration, while education- and labor-immigrants
and Nordic immigrantsshow the strongest tendency to enter a job or start an
education. The main trendis that immigrants who move between labor market
regions show a strongertendency to enter activity statuses than immigrants who
do not provide suchremovals, and is most beneficial for immigrants initially
settled at lowercentrality. Immigrants who are already in employment and/or
education, theeducation- and labor-immigrants and Nordic immigrants show higher
tendency tomaintain such "activity statuses? than refugees, family-immigrants
andimmigrants with unspecified reason for immigration. The main trend is
thatimmigrants who do not move between labor market regions show stronger
tendencyto remain in employment and/or education than immigrants who make such
moves.Those who relocate are thus associated both with stronger tendency of
finding ajob or starting an education, but also more likely to quit their job
oreducation. |
| Keywords: | Employment; Education; Migration;Immigrants |
| JEL: | J61 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wiw:wiwrsa:ersa16p666&r=mig ;|
- Age at ImmigrationMatters for Labor Market Integration: The SwedishExample
| Date: | 2016-12 |
| By: | Gustafsson, Björn Anders (University of Gothenburg) ;
MacInnes, Hanna (University of Gothenburg) ; Österberg, Torun (University of
Gothenburg) |
| This paper analyses how age at immigration to Sweden andgetting a first
foothold in the labor market is related. We estimate hazard ratemodels using
registry data on all persons who arrived in each of the years 1990,1994, 1998,
and 2002. The results show that the number of years taken to get afoothold in
the Swedish labor market increases rapidly by age among immigrantsfrom middle-
and low-income countries aged 40 +. Most individuals who are bornin middle- or
low-income countries who immigrate after age 50 never get afoothold in the
Swedish labor market. |
| Keywords: | immigrants, Sweden, age, labor market |
| JEL: | C41 J15 J61 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp10423&r=mig ;|
- Educationaloutcomes and immigrant background
| Date: | 2016-12 |
| By: | Sara Flisi (European Commission - JRC) ; Elena Claudia Meroni
(European Commission - JRC) ; Esperanza Vera-Toscano (European Commission -
JRC) |
| This technical brief aims to answer questions such as: Howdo the skills
and educational outcomes of foreign-born young people compare withthose of the
native-born? Do immigrants’ outcomes differ depending onwhether they are EU
foreign-born or non-EU foreign-born? How do the educationaloutcomes of
second-generation immigrants compare with those of first-generationimmigrants?
How does the performance of recently arrived migrants compare withthat of
long-established immigrants? and with that of natives? Is there acorrelation
between educational outcomes and age of arrival or duration of stay?The brief
thus seeks to contribute to analysis of the qualifications and
skillscomposition of migrants in EU countries, as compared with that of their
nativecounterparts. We take a life-cycle approach, focusing in turn on
children, youngadults and the overall working-age population. We start by
looking at the skillsof 15-year-old pupils. We then move on to the performance
of young adults, interms of a number of education-related indicators: early
school leaving (ESL),young people neither in employment nor in education and
training (NEETs),tertiary education attainment (TEA) and employment rate of
recent graduates.Finally, we present a snapshot of the skills of the adult
population. Theresults show that second-generation migrant students are
systematically moredisadvantaged than their native peers across EU countries;
however, adults whoarrived in the country when still young generally perform at
levels closer tothose of their native counterparts (or at least better than
first-generationmigrants), showing that education systems (including vocational
training) have akey role to play in the integration process. Nonetheless, there
still seems tobe a significant under-used stock of migrant human capital. Being
aware of thissituation is crucial to putting in place policies and active
measures to ensurethat adult migrants are fully integrated. |
| Keywords: | Educational outcome, skills, migrants |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ipt:iptwpa:jrc102629&r=mig ;|
- The Labour MarketEffect of Immigration: Accounting for Effective Immigrant
Work Experience in NewZealand
| Date: | 2016-12 |
| By: | Tse, Michael M. H. (University of Auckland) ; Maani,Sholeh A.
(University of Auckland) |
| This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season,describes the
U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice onconducting an
academic job search. It provides data, reports findings frompublished papers,
describes practical details, and includes links to onlineresources. Topics
addressed include: preparing to go on the market; applying foracademic jobs;
the JOE Network, which is the AEA's electronic clearinghouse forthe job market;
signaling; interviewing at the ASSA meetings; campus visits; thesecondary
market scramble; offers and negotiating; getting off to a good startas an
assistant professor; diversity; and dual job searches. |
| Keywords: | human capital, immigrants, effective work experience,
wage effects,employment effects, regions |
| JEL: | J61 J62 J31 J3 J24 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp10422&r=mig ;|
- Glass CeilingEffect in Urban China: Wage Inequality of Rural-Urban
Migrants during2002-2007
| Date: | 2016-12 |
| By: | Qu, Zhaopeng (Frank) (Nanjing University) ; Zhao,Zhong (Renmin
University of China) |
| The paper studies the levels and changes in wage inequalityamong
Chinese rural-urban migrants during 2002-2007. Using data from two wavesof
national household surveys, we find that wage inequality among
migrantsdecreased significantly between 2002 and 2007. Our analysis on the
wagedistribution further shows that the high-wage migrants experienced slower
wagegrowth than middle-and low-wage migrants – a primary cause of
declininginequality of migrants. By using distributional decomposition methods
based onquantile regression, we find that overall between-group effect
dominates in thewhole wage distribution, which means that the change in returns
to thecharacteristics (education, experience and other employment
characteristics)plays a key role, but on the upper tails of the wage
distribution, the withingroup effect (residual effect) dominates, implying that
the unobservable factorsor institutional barriers do not favor the migrants at
the top tail of the wagedistribution. We also study wage differential between
migrants and urbannatives, and find that though the wage gap is narrowed, gap
at upper wagedistribution is becoming bigger. Overall, the results suggest that
there existsstrong "glass ceiling" for migrants in urban labor market. |
| Keywords: | rural to urban migrants, wageinequality, quantile
decomposition, China |
| JEL: | J30 J45 J61 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp10424&r=mig ;|
- Do ImmigrantsCompete with Natives in the Greek Labour Market? Evidence
from the Skill-CellApproach Before and During the Great Recession
| Date: | 2016-12-14 |
| By: | Chletsos, Michael ; Roupakias, Stelios |
| This study applies the skill-cell approach introduced byBorjas (2003)
in order to identify the causal impact of immigration on theemployment
opportunities of resident workers, using data from two differentsamples, namely
two waves of the Census of Population (1991 and 2001) and theGreek Labour Force
Survey (1998-2015). Grouping workers in three education andeight experience
classes at the national level, we find small adverse effects onthe employment
outcomes of natives, that are generally not sensitive toalternative education
and experience classifications and when accounting for theeffective experience
of immigrants. However, as for the period between 1998 and2015, our findings
appear to be driven by the negative influence of immigrationascertained in the
sub-period during the Great Recession. Remarkably, there issome evidence of
complementarity when the pre-recession period (1998- 2007) isconsidered. The
less-skilled natives, appear to be the group of workers which ismore vulnerable
to immigration. Our results also indicate that the Greek economyhas the
capacity to accommodate large immigration flows in the long-run,
withoutsignificant effects. Finally, contrary to earlier studies, we do not
findevidence consistent with the idea that migrants push natives towards
complex,language-intensive tasks. |
| Keywords: | Immigration employment, earnings |
| JEL: | F22 J15 J31 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:75659&r=mig ;|
- Can ImmigrantsInsure against Shocks as well as the Native-born?
| Date: | 2016-11 |
| By: | Asadul Islam ; StevenStillman ; Christopher Worswick |
| The impact that an unforeseen event has on household welfaredepends on
the extent to which household members can take actions to mitigatethe direct
impact of the shock. In this paper, we use nine years of longitudinaldata from
the Household Income Labour Dynamics of Australia (HILDA) survey toexamine the
impact of job displacement and serious health problems on:individual labour
supply and incomes, household incomes and food expenditure. Weextend on the
previous literature by examining whether mitigation strategies andtheir
effectiveness differs for the native-born and immigrants. Immigrants makeup
nearly one-quarter of the Australian population and there are a number
ofreasons to suspect that they may be less able to mitigate adverse shocks
thanthe native-born. |
| Keywords: | job loss, income, consumption, laboursupply, disability |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:mos:moswps:2016-31&r=mig ;|
- Does InformationChange Attitudes Towards Immigrants? Representative
Evidence from SurveyExperiments
| Date: | 2016-12 |
| By: | Grigorieff, Alexis (University of Oxford) ; Roth,Christopher
(University of Oxford) ; Ubfal,Diego (Bocconi University) |
| We study whether providing information about immigrantsaffects people's
attitude towards them. First, we use a large representativecross-country
experiment to show that, when people are told the share ofimmigrants in their
country, they become less likely to state that there are toomany of them. Then,
we conduct two online experiments in the U.S., where weprovide half of the
participants with five statistics about immigration, beforeevaluating their
attitude towards immigrants with self-reported and behavioralmeasures. This
more comprehensive intervention improves people's attitudetowards existing
immigrants, although it does not change people's policypreferences regarding
immigration. Republicans become more willing to increaselegal immigration after
receiving the information treatment. Finally, we alsomeasure the same
self-reported policy preferences, attitudes, and beliefs in afour-week
follow-up, and we show that the treatment effects persist. |
| Keywords: | attitudes towards immigrants, biased beliefs, survey
experiment,immigration, policy preferences, persistence |
| JEL: | C9 J15 Z1 Z13 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp10419&r=mig ;|
- Multilateralmechanism analysis of interprovincial migration flows inChina
| Date: | 2016-12 |
| By: | Yingxia Pu ; Ying Ge |
| With the development of global economy and rapid process
ofurbanization, migration has become one of the key forces in
populationredistribution and has important implications for socio-economic
development ina region. As we all know, population migration flows between
different regionsare related to not only the origin- and destination-specific
characteristics,but also to the migration flows to and from neighborhoods.
Intuitively, changesin the characteristics of a single region will impact both
inflows and outflowsto and from other regions. In order to explore the spatial
interaction mechanismdriving the increasing population migration in China since
the open door policy,this paper builds the spatial OD model of interprovincial
migration flows basedon the sixth national population census data and related
social-economic data.The findings are as follows: (1) Migration flows show
significantautocorrelation effects among origin and destination regions, which
means thatthe migration behavior of migrants in some region is influenced by
that ofmigrants in other places. The positive effects indicate the outflows
from anorigin or the inflows to a destination tend to cluster in a similar
way.Simultaneously, the negative effects suggest the flows from the
neighborhood ofan origin to the neighborhood of a destination tend to disperse
in a dissimilarway. (2) Multilateral effects of the regional economic and
social factorsthrough the spatial network system lead to the clustering
migration flows acrossinterrelated regions. Distance decay effect plays the
most influential force inshaping the patterns of migration flows among all the
factors and the negativespillover effect further aggravates the friction of
distance. As fordestinations, the influence of wage level and migration stocks
is beyond the GDPand the positive spillover effects of these factors enhance
the attraction ofneighborhood regions. The spillover effects of unemployment
rate and collegeenrollment of higher education are significantly negative while
destinationpopulation is not significant. As for origins, population and
migration stockslead to positive spillover effects on the neighborhoods while
the effects ofother factors are negative. (3) Changes in the regional
characteristics willpotentially lead to a series of events to the whole
migration system, and theflows to and from the center of oscillation and its
neighborhoods vibrategreatly compared with other regions. The simulation
results of 5% GDP increasein Jiangsu province indicate that the outflows to
other regions decrease whilethe inflows from all others increase to some
different extent. Comparatively,the influence on the flows to and from the
regions neighboring Jiangsu issignificant while that of remote regions is much
less, which cannot be explainedby the traditional gravity model. |
| Keywords: | population migration flows; network
autocorrelation;multilateral effects; spatial OD model; spatial mechanism
analysis;China |
| JEL: | C13 C15 C31 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wiw:wiwrsa:ersa16p423&r=mig ;|
- Countering PublicOpposition to Immigration: The Impact of
InformationCampaigns
| Date: | 2016-12 |
| By: | Facchini, Giovanni (University of Nottingham) ; Margalit,
Yotam (Tel Aviv University) ; Nakata, Hiroyuki (University of Leicester) |
| Popular sentiment toward immigration is often antagonistic,making the
integration of migrants one of the most important yet dauntingchallenges facing
societies in advanced economies. Can information campaignsdecrease public
opposition to immigration? This paper reports results from alarge-scale
experiment conducted in Japan, a country with widespreadanti-immigration
sentiment. Embedded in a comprehension study, we randomlyexposed a large
national sample of citizens to information pertaining topotential social and
economic benefits from immigration. Depending on thetreatment, we find that
this exposure led to a substantial increase in supportfor a more open
immigration policy. The treatments also motivated citizens totake political
action in support of this cause. Notably, while smaller inmagnitude, many
effects also persisted 10-12 days after the treatment. Theresults highlight the
potential value of combating enmity to incoming foreignerswith campaigns that
inform the public about key positive impacts ofimmigration. |
| Keywords: | immigration, informationcampaigns, experiment, public
opinion, Japan |
| JEL: | F12 F16 L11 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp10420&r=mig ;|
- Internalmigration and EU regional policy transfer payments: A panel data
analysis forthe EU-28 member countries
| Date: | 2016-12 |
| By: | Peter Schmidt |
| This paper analyses the effects of EU regional policytransfer payments
on net migration flows among the EU-28 countries. Thehypothesis is tested that
EU transfer payments do hamper internal migrationacross the EU. On the one
hand, this is done by reestimating the results foundby Egger, Eggert and Larch
(2014): "Structural Operations and Net MigrationAcross European Union Member
Countries", Review of International Economics,22(2), pp. 352-378 for a longer
time period, who basically tested a NEG modelwhere they derived the above
hypothesis from. On the other hand, a moreneoclassical model of the
migration-regional policy-nexus is tested. Like inEgger et al. (2014) a
significant effect of EU regional policy expenditures onnet bilateral migration
among the EU-28 member countries is identified. However,contrary to Egger et
al. (2014), the effect is not negative but positive. Onaverage, a one
percentage point increase of structural funds expenditures inpercent of GDP
leads to an increase in the measure of net bilateral migration byabout
0.2-0.6%. Hence, EU regional policy transfer payments spur instead ofhamper
internal migration across EU member countries. |
| Keywords: | EUregional policy; structural funds; internal migration;
convergence; Europeanintegration |
| JEL: | E62 F15 F22 H53 I38 R58 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wiw:wiwrsa:ersa16p172&r=mig ;|
- Immigration ? away out of the Swedish rural population crisis?
| Date: | 2016-12 |
| By: | Mats Johansson |
| During the past decades immigration to Sweden has increasedsharply and
this has had an impact on urban as well as rural populationdevelopment. During
the era of labour immigration the immigrants were spread allover the country in
line with labour demand but during the past decades the withaccentuated refugee
immigration the immigrants have instead been concentrated tothe large cities
and especially then to the metropolitan areas. But there arealso opposite
forces that have stimulating effects on the rural populationdevelopment as the
immigrants have increased both in relative and absoluteterms. Even if the
internal migratory movements still are of rural-urbancharacter the huge
immigration flows seem to have hampering effects on the ruraldepopulation
tendencies at least in the short term as many of the refugeescentres are
localized in rural areas and some of the immigrants stay in theirnew
surroundings. The result has been that the negative migration surplus hasbeen
substituted by a positive one even for many rural areas in Sweden and
thepopulation decrease in the rural areas has been ? at least officially
-hampered. The results must, however, be interpreted with some scepticism as
itmust be borne in mind that the refugees formally are immigrants in
themunicipalities where they got their residence permit. After that, they
areinternal migrants in the second round if they move to other places in Sweden
?that often is the case ? as they are then registered as foreign-born
internalmigrants but not immigrants. This might mean that the immigrants hamper
the netout-migration intensities in the first round but stimulate them in the
second.Anyhow, without immigrants the problematic demographic situation in many
ruralareas in Sweden would be worsening as some of the immigrants stay in their
?new?settlement communities even if these are out-migration areas. In many
cases thenegative net-migration intensities are changed to positive
net-migrationintensities as a consequence of immigration. Another aspect is the
potentialhampering effects on the ageing process as many of the immigrants are
relativelyyoung and with a higher fertility but here the effects on natural
populationincrease are hampered by the skewed gender structure. These
divergentdemographic processes are analysed based on the development paths
between 1970and 2014 in differing Swedish urban-rural regions ? a period with
drasticchanges in the geographical migration patterns but also in the
Swedishimmigration policy. |
| Keywords: | Migration; ageing; urban-rural relations |
| JEL: | J |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wiw:wiwrsa:ersa16p192&r=mig ;|
- Post-EnlargementMigration and the Great Recession in the E(M)U: Lessons
and policyimplications
| Date: | 2016-11-21 |
| By: | Kahanec, Martin (Central European University, and IZA Bonn) ;
Zimmermann, Klaus F. (UNU-MERIT, and Princeton University) |
| This paper summarises key results from our research
aboutpost-enlargement mobility in the EU. We clarify its scope, composition
andeffects; labour market situation of mobile workers; the role of labour
mobilityas a vehicle of economic stabilisation; as well as brain circulation
and returnmigration. We also outline a policy agenda for a labour mobility
model for avibrant EU, enabling Europe to cope with labour market imbalances
and asymmetriceconomic shocks, and providing for a more prosperous, cohesive
and equalEU. |
| Keywords: | EU enlargement, free movement of workers, labour
mobility,migration policy, business cycle, stabilisation |
| JEL: | O15 J15 J61 J68 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:unm:unumer:2016066&r=mig ;|
- Refugees andrural development: Chances from migration and challenges
ofintegration
| Date: | 2016 |
| By: | Pollermann, Kim |
| The current immigration of refugees leads to a discussionabout links
between rural development and migration. Some rural regions inGermany formulate
the hope that they can benefit from refugee immigration. Inthese areas, the
impacts of aging and population decline with labour and skillsshortages are
often more relevant than in larger cities. So the questions are:What are the
chances from refugee immigration? For which kind of rural areas arethese
opportunities realistic? And which framework conditions and
governancearrangements for integration are conducive to using these
opportunities? Withregard to the attractiveness of various rural areas in
Germany for immigrationand their integration abilities, the conditions are
quite different while inEastern Germany the possibilities are lower.
Multi-level-integration governanceis required to make the best use of the
chances. To shape suitable frameworkconditions for integration there is a need
of a region specific, integrated viewon the different factors of integration. |
| Keywords: | Ruraldevelopment,Integration,Refugees,Migration,Germany |
| JEL: | RR58 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:esconf:148648&r=mig ;|
- Jobs, cime, andvotes: A short-run evaluation of the refugee crisis
inGermany
| Date: | 2016 |
| By: | Gehrsitz, Markus ; Ungerer, Martin |
| Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014and 2015,
with over one million arriving in Germany alone. Yet, little is knownabout the
impact of this inflow on labor markets, crime, and voting behavior.This article
uses administrative data on refugee allocation and provides anevaluation of the
short-run consequences of the refugee inflow. Ouridentification strategy
exploits that a scramble for accommodation determinedthe assignment of refugees
to German counties resulting in exogeneous variationsin the number of refugees
per county even within states. Our estimates suggestthat migrants have not
displaced native workers but have themselves struggled tofind gainful
employment. We find very small increases in crime in particularwith respect to
drug offenses and fare-dodging. Our analysis further suggeststhat counties
which experience a larger influx see neither more nor less supportfor the main
anti-immigrant party than counties which experience small migrantinflows. |
| Keywords: | Immigration,Refugees,Unemployment,Crime,Voting |
| JEL: | J6 J15 K4 D72 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:zewdip:16086&r=mig ;|
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