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NEP: New Economics Papers
Economics of Human Migration
Edited by: Yuji Tamura
La Trobe University
Issue date: 2013-12-29
Papers: 23
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In this issue we have:
1. U.S. Border Enforcement and Mexican Immigrant Location Choice
Bohn, Sarah; Pugatch, Todd
2. The Causal Effect of Deficiency at English on Female Immigrants'
Labor Market Outcomes in the UK
Miranda, Alfonso; Zhu, Yu
3. Why are educated and risk-loving persons more mobile across regions?
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Suedekum, Jens
4. The Quality of Immigrant Source Country Educational Outcomes: Do
they Matter in the Receiving Country?
Qing Li; Arthur Sweetman
5. Migrant Remittances and Information Flows: Evidence from a Field
Experiment
Batista, Catia; Narciso, Gaia
6. The impact of immigration on the labour market: Evidence from 20
years of cross-border migration to Argentina
Battiston, Diego
7. Guest Workers in the Underground Economy
Slobodan Djajić, Alice Mesnard
8. Migration Patterns for Medicaid Enrollees 2005-2007.
David K. Baugh; Shinu Verghese
9. New Evidence on the Healthy Immigrant Effect
Farré, Lídia
10. What's the best place for me? Location-choice for S&E students in
India
Hercog, Metka; Van de Laar, Mindel
11. Immigration Restriction and Long-Run Cultural Assimilation: Theory
and Quasi-Experimental Evidence
Fausto Galli; Giuseppe Russo
12. The Transformation of European Migration Governance
Andrew Geddes
13. Financing public goods and attitudes toward immigration
Gabriel Romero; Iñigo Iturbe-Ormaetxe Kortajarene
14. National Identity and Immigrants’ Assimilation in France
Gabin Langevin; Pascaline Vincent
15. Ageing of skills and complementary immigration in the EU, 2010-2025
Ashley McCormick
16. ‘Because She Never Let Them In’: Irish Immigration a Century Ago
and Today
Cormac Ó Gráda
17. Bringing migration into the post-2015 agenda: Notes, reflections
and policy directions
Skeldon, Ronald
18. The Roles of Assimilation and Ethnic Enclave Residence in Immigrant
Smoking
Johanna Catherine Maclean; Douglas Webber; Jody L. Sindelar
19. Determinants of international mobility decision: The case-study of
India
Hercog, Metka; Van de Laar, Mindel
20. Discrimination in the Irish Labour Market: Nationality, Ethnicity
and the Recession
Gillian Kingston; Frances McGinnity; Philip J. O’Connell
21. Irish Attitudes To Immigration During And After The Boom
Kevin Denny; Cormac Ó Gráda
22. Those Who Knock on Europe's Door Must Repent? Bilateral Border
Disputes and EU EnlargementNational Change
Andrew Geddes and Andrew Taylor
23. ¿Ha contribuido la población inmigrante a la convergencia
interregional en España?
Fernandez-Leiceaga, Xoaquin; Lago-Peñas, Santiago; Sánchez, Patricio
Contents.
1. U.S. Border Enforcement and Mexican Immigrant Location Choice
Date: 2013-12
By: Bohn, Sarah (Public Policy Institute of California)
Pugatch, Todd (Oregon State University)
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp7842&r=mig
We provide the first evidence on the causal effect of border enforcement on the
full spatial distribution of Mexican immigrants to the United States. We
address the endogeneity of border enforcement with an instrumental variables
strategy based on administrative delays in budgetary allocations for border
security. We find that 1,000 additional border patrol officers assigned to
prevent unauthorized migrants from entering a state decreases that state's
share of Mexican immigrants by 21.9%. Our estimates imply that border
enforcement alone accounted for declines in the share of Mexican immigrants
locating in California and Texas of 11 and 6 percentage points, respectively,
over the period 1994-2011, with all other states experiencing gains or no
change.
Keywords: unauthorized immigration, border enforcement, Mexico, residential
location choice
JEL: J15 J61
2. The Causal Effect of Deficiency at English on Female Immigrants'
Labor Market Outcomes in the UK
Date: 2013-12
By: Miranda, Alfonso (CIDE, Mexico City)
Zhu, Yu (University of Kent)
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp7841&r=mig
We investigate the extent to which deficiency at English as measured by English
as Additional Language (EAL), contribute to the immigrant-native wage gap for
female employees in the UK, controlling for covariates. To deal with the
endogeneity of EAL and a substantial problem of self-selection into employment
we suggest a 3-step estimator (TSE). The properties of this estimator are
investigated in a Monte Carlo simulation study and we show evidence that TSE
delivers a consistent and asymptotically normal estimator. We find a large and
statistically significant causal effect of EAL on the immigrant-native wage gap
for women.
Keywords: English as Additional Language (EAL), immigrant-native wage gap,
endogenous treatment, sample selection
JEL: J15 J31 J61 C21
3. Why are educated and risk-loving persons more mobile across regions?
Date: 2013
By: Bauernschuster, Stefan
Falck, Oliver
Heblich, Stephan
Suedekum, Jens
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:dicedp:123&r=mig
Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across
regions? To answer this question, we use micro data on internal migrants from
the German Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP) 2000 - 2006 and merge this information
with a unique proxy for region-pair-specific cultural distances across German
regions constructed from historical local dialect patterns. Our findings
indicate that risk-loving and skilled people are more mobile over longer
distances because they are more willing to cross cultural boundaries and move
to regions that are culturally different from their homes. Other types of
distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity
of educated and risk-loving individuals. --
Keywords: Migration,Culture,Distance,Human Capital,Risk Attitudes
JEL: J61 R23 D81
4. The Quality of Immigrant Source Country Educational Outcomes: Do
they Matter in the Receiving Country?
Date: 2013-12
By: Qing Li (McMaster University)
Arthur Sweetman (McMaster University)
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:crm:wpaper:1332&r=mig
International test scores are used to proxy the quality of source country
educational outcomes and explain differences in the rate of return to schooling
among immigrants in Canada. The average quality of educational outcomes in an
immigrant’s source country and the rate of return to schooling in the host
country labour market are found to have a strong and positive association.
However, in contrast to those who completed their education pre-immigration,
immigrants who arrived at a young age are not influenced by this educational
quality measure. Also, the results are not much affected when the source
country’s GDP per capita and other nation-level characteristics are used as
control variables. Together, these observations reinforce the argument that the
quality of educational outcomes has explanatory power for labour market
outcomes. The effects are strongest for males and for females without children.
Keywords: Immigration, Quality of Education, Earnings
JEL: I21 J31 J61
5. Migrant Remittances and Information Flows: Evidence from a Field
Experiment
Date: 2013-12
By: Batista, Catia (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Narciso, Gaia (Trinity College Dublin)
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp7839&r=mig
Do information flows matter for remittance behavior? We design and implement a
randomized control trial to quantitatively assess the role of communication
between migrants and their contacts abroad on the extent and value of
remittance flows. In the experiment, a random sample of 1,500 migrants residing
in Ireland was offered the possibility of contacting their networks outside the
host country for free over a varying number of months. We find a sizable,
positive impact of our intervention on the value of migrant remittances sent.
Our results exclude that the remittance effect we identify is a simple
substitution effect. Instead, our analysis points to this effect being a likely
result of improved information via factors such as better migrant control over
remittance use, enhanced trust in remittance channels due to experience
sharing, or increased remittance recipients' social pressure on migrants.
Keywords: information flows, international migration, migrant networks,
remittances, randomized control trial
JEL: F22 J61 O15
6. The impact of immigration on the labour market: Evidence from 20
years of cross-border migration to Argentina
Date: 2013
By: Battiston, Diego
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:52424&r=mig
This paper studies the effects of immigration on the wages of Argentinean
native workers over the period 1993-2012. I use a novel micro-dataset which
combines household surveys from Argentina and six other Latin American
countries. Immigration from these six countries accounts for 95% of the total
immigration from Latin American countries. The empirical strategy identifies
the effects of the labour supply variation using the “national approach” from
Borjas (2003) and a reduced form equation obtained within a CES framework. In
order to account for demand/pull shocks, I propose a set of instruments based
on labour market conditions in immigrants’ home countries. An alternative
specification also explores the hypothesis of heterogeneous impact by country
of origin. Overall, findings show a significant negative impact of immigration
on wages. IV estimates suggest that OLS results are a lower bound for the
(partial) causal effect. Thus, if confounding
demand factors exist, they bias the results toward zero.
Keywords: immigration; wages; Argentina; labour market; cross-border migration;
JEL: J0 J20 J31 J61 O54
7. Guest Workers in the Underground Economy
Date: 2013-12-19
By: Slobodan Djajić, Alice Mesnard (IHEID, The Graduate Institute of
International and Development Studies, Geneva)
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:gii:giihei:heidwp15-2013&r=mig
Guest-worker programs have been providing rapidly growing economies with
millions of temporary foreign workers over the last couple of decades. With the
duration of stay strictly limited by program rules in most of the host
countries and wages paid to guest workers often set at sub-market levels, many
of the migrants choose to overstay and seek employment in the underground
economy. This paper develops a general-equilibrium model that relates the flow
of guest workers transiting to the underground economy to the rules of the
program, enforcement measures of the host country and market conditions facing
migrants at home and abroad.
Keywords: Temporary migration, undocumented workers, underground economy
JEL: F22
8. Migration Patterns for Medicaid Enrollees 2005-2007.
Date: 2013-12-30
By: David K. Baugh
Shinu Verghese
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:mpr:mprres:7990&r=mig
Keywords: MAX, Medicaid, Eligibility, Enrollment, Migration, Moving
JEL: I
9. New Evidence on the Healthy Immigrant Effect
Date: 2013-12
By: Farré, Lídia (IAE Barcelona (CSIC))
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp7840&r=mig
This paper provides new empirical evidence on the contribution of selective
migration to the health advantage of immigrants upon arrival to the new
destination (i.e. the Healthy Immigrant Effect). It analyses a very interesting
episode in international migration, namely the exodus of Ecuadorians in the
aftermath of the economic collapse in the late 1990s. Between 1999 and 2005,
more than 600,000 Ecuadorians left the country and most of them headed towards
Spain. Using administrative data from the Vital Statistics, it compares the
health distribution (in terms of birth outcomes) of immigrant children born in
Spain to that of non-immigrants in Ecuador and immigrants from other
nationalities, and not only to that of natives at destination. These
comparisons suggest that positive selection is partly responsible for the
health advantage of recent immigrants.
Keywords: immigration, selection, health, birth outcomes
JEL: J61 I14 C14
10. What's the best place for me? Location-choice for S&E students in
India
Date: 2013-12-19
By: Hercog, Metka (UNU-MERIT / MGSoG)
Van de Laar, Mindel (UNU-MERIT / MGSoG)
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:unm:unumer:2013066&r=mig
This paper examines how national migration policies and country-specific
factors in receiving countries attend to a potential highly-skilled migrant
when one is deciding among several possible locations. While continental
European countries recognize the need to attract migrants as a key component of
their economic strategies, it remained unclear to what extent the more open
immigration policies led to actually increase the attractiveness of European
countries to perform better at the global competition for the highly-skilled.
The survey among prospective migrants in India shows that while European
countries appear to be relatively attractive for study purposes, they are not
perceived equally attractive as a place for a long-term stay. To overcome the
risks and pick Europe as a destination, more resources and skills are necessary
than for traditional immigration countries; be it in terms of existing networks
abroad, higher educational level or better
language skills. With less long-term migration initiatives to Europe,
immigration policies and destination country-specific factors, chances to
obtain citizenship and amenities of local environment become less relevant.
European governments place considerable effort on integration of student
migration as a part of a wider immigration strategy. This strategy is likely to
prove ineffective if "probationary migrants" clearly do not see European
countries as prospective work destination for the period after their
graduation.
Keywords: location choices, pull factors, higher education, student migration,
migration policy, India
JEL: F22 J61 I23 J24
11. Immigration Restriction and Long-Run Cultural Assimilation: Theory
and Quasi-Experimental Evidence
Date: 2013-12-18
By: Fausto Galli (Università di Salerno)
Giuseppe Russo (Università di Salerno and CSEF)
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:sef:csefwp:349&r=mig
We study the effect of restrictions to immigration on the cultural assimilation
of the second generation. Our theoretical model shows that restrictive policies
incentivize to permanent immigration individuals with a stronger taste for
their original culture. Permanent immigration implies reproduction in the
destination country and transmission of cultural traits to the second
generation, which will therefore experience a more difficult assimilation. We
test this prediction by using the 1973 immigration ban in Germany
(Anwerbestopp) as a quasi-experiment, since it only concerned immigrants from
countries outside the European Economic Community. Thus, our treatment group is
given by the second generation of non-EEC immigrants. Our estimates show that
the Anwerbestopp has reduced the cultural assimilation of this generation. This
result is robust to several checks, including a triple differences analysis. We
conclude that restrictive immigration policies
may have unwanted consequences on the process of cultural assimilation.
Keywords: return migration, cultural transmission, difference-in-differences
JEL: D91 F22 J15 Z13
12. The Transformation of European Migration Governance
Date: 2013-11-15
By: Andrew Geddes
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:erp:kfgxxx:p0056&r=mig
This paper explores the role played by the production and use of knowledge
about international migration - or to be more specific the incompleteness of
such knowledge -in driving new forms of EU migration governance. The focus is
on the transformation of modes of governance linked to the roles played by
instrumental, social and communicative logics of institutional action. The
paper shows that, while the key referent for migration governance in Europe
remains the state and associated state-centered logics of control, it is now
evident that both the understanding of the issues and the pursuit of policy
objectives are clearly shaped by the EU. A key reason for this is the role
played by uncertainty related not only to the causes and effects of
international migration, but also about the actual numbers of international
migrants living both regularly and irregularly in EU member states. In contrast
to existing approaches that see uncertainty and incomplete
knowledge as causes of policy failure, this paper sees uncertainty and
incomplete knowledge as creating social and political opportunities for EU
action linked to the quest for more and 'better' knowledge with resultant
conceptual and practical space for 'transgovernmental' relations among
government units working across borders.
Keywords: immigration policy; governance
13. Financing public goods and attitudes toward immigration
Date: 2013-12
By: Gabriel Romero (Departamento de Economía)
Iñigo Iturbe-Ormaetxe Kortajarene (Universidad de Alicante)
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ivi:wpasad:2013-09&r=mig
We present a model in which individuals choose both the level of provision of a
public good and the quota of low-skilled immigrants that are allowed into the
country. Individuals can supplement the public good in the private market.
Immigrants affect natives through three channels: (i) the labor market; (ii)
tax collection; (iii) the quality of the public good. We find that the higher
the political weight of the rich (highly skilled) is, the less tolerant the
poor and the middle-class are toward immigration and the more demanding they
are toward increasing public spending. The rich are the most favorable to
immigration. As they have more weight, the political outcome is closer to their
preferences and further from the preferences of the other groups. We use data
from the European Social Survey to test the implications of our model.
Keywords: Probabilistic voting model, public goods, immigration
JEL: H41 J61 D72
14. National Identity and Immigrants’ Assimilation in France
Date: 2013-12
By: Gabin Langevin (Université de Rennes 1, CREM CNRS UMR 6211, France)
Pascaline Vincent (Université de Rennes 1, CREM CNRS UMR 6211, France)
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:tut:cremwp:201341&r=mig
Determination and changes of immigrants' identity resulting from intercultural
contacts impact their socio-economic integration. To precisely assess
individuals’ identity, we propose a continuous index which aims to overcome
interpretation troubles faced by usual measures of ethnic identity. Then, we
investigate the determinants of immigrants' ethnic identity in France. We
compare our composite and continuous index exhibiting individuals' assimilation
with a usual measure of ethnic identity – the national identity ("I feel
French" dummy). We underline the importance of some sociodemographic
characteristics in ethnic identity formation and detail immigrants'
assimilation in France. We are thus able to show that cultural assimilation and
national identity do not always coincide. It seems that the further the origin
(in cultural terms), the higher the national identity, but the lower the
assimilation. We also present evidence of second generations'
identity convergence to natives’ one, either in terms of national identity
(almost total commitment) or assimilation.
Keywords: ethnicity, ethnic identity, first and second generation immigrants,
integration, assimilation
JEL: J15 D63 Z13
15. Ageing of skills and complementary immigration in the EU, 2010-2025
Date: 2013-11-05
By: Ashley McCormick
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:erp:euirsc:p0353&r=mig
This paper measures both population ageing and shrinking within the working age
populations of all 27 European Union countries between 2010 and 2025, in the
absence of any further migration. In this ‘no migration scenario’ it provides
the levels of net migration that should be necessary to maintain the size of
the young working age population (aged 15-44 years of age). This paper does not
give analytic focus to wider non-demographic processes that can either offset
or amplify the ageing of skills. For example, neither the introduction of
life-long learning programmes nor the postponements to the legal age of
retirement are factored into the model. Results highlight that without migrants
shows the employed population aged below 45 in all EU member states will have
significant levels of shortfall in maintaining the size of the 2010 labour
force.
16. ‘Because She Never Let Them In’: Irish Immigration a Century Ago
and Today
Date: 2013-12-19
By: Cormac Ó Gráda (University College Dublin)
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ucn:wpaper:201319&r=mig
A century ago, and for most of the twentieth century, Ireland was a land of
emigration, not immigration. However, in the space of less than a decade in the
2000s, Ireland was transformed from a homogeneous community, where nonnative
residents were in a very small minority, to one in which one-sixth of its
inhabitants are foreign-born. The paper will compare immigration and attitudes
towards immigrants in the very different Irelands of a century ago and of the
present.
17. Bringing migration into the post-2015 agenda: Notes, reflections
and policy directions
Date: 2013-12-17
By: Skeldon, Ronald (UNU-MERIT / MGSoG, and University of Sussex)
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:unm:unumer:2013065&r=mig
Migration was not an explicit goal of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),
rightly so in this writer's view, but it was indirectly an integral part of
achieving many, if not all, of the goals themselves. As we move towards the end
of the MDG period in 2015, it is worth reflecting upon what will follow, and if
and how migration should be incorporated into what is to follow. Two dimensions
are central to such a discussion: first, the nature of the development goals
post-2015; second, how migration might fit into these goals. These notes and
reflections will conclude with a possible policy direction that just might
provide a path towards integrating migration into development.
Keywords: Migration, Development, Post 2015 Development Agenda, Millennium
Development Goals, MDGs
JEL: F22 O15
18. The Roles of Assimilation and Ethnic Enclave Residence in Immigrant
Smoking
Date: 2013-12
By: Johanna Catherine Maclean
Douglas Webber
Jody L. Sindelar
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nbr:nberwo:19753&r=mig
In this study we examine the importance of assimilation and ethnic enclave
residence for smoking outcomes among United States immigrants. We draw data on
over 140,000 immigrants from the Current Population Survey Tobacco Use
Supplements between 1995 and 2011. Several patterns emerge from our analysis.
First we replicate findings from previous studies that show that longer
residence in the U.S is associated with improved employment outcomes while
ethnic enclave residence may hinder these outcomes. Second, we find that
assimilation similarly extends to coverage of employment-based anti-smoking
policies such as worksite smoking bans and smoking cessation programs while
enclave residence does not substantially influence these outcomes. Third, we
document complex relationships between assimilation, enclave residence, and
smoking outcomes. Lastly, we find no strong evidence that immigrants reduce
their smoking when faced with more restrictive state
anti-smoking policies and find counter-intuitive impacts of tobacco taxes.
These findings have important policy implications.
JEL: I1 I18 J18 J48
19. Determinants of international mobility decision: The case-study of
India
Date: 2013-12-19
By: Hercog, Metka (UNU-MERIT / MGSoG)
Van de Laar, Mindel (UNU-MERIT / MGSoG)
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:unm:unumer:2013067&r=mig
Faced with a situation in which countries compete for international students,
it becomes especially important to understand students' preferences regarding
migration behaviour. This paper looks at the determinants of international
mobility intentions in the specific situation of Indian students in sciences
and engineering. It uses data collected from a survey of students at five
Indian universities, complemented by qualitative data from interviews. We
looked at the role of students' personal and family background,
university-related factors, their social network and preferences for living
location in their motivations for moving abroad. The type of university and
field of studies work as strong predictors for students' desire to move abroad.
Whether a student plans a career in academia or wants to work in a company has
a decisive influence on where they see themselves in the near future.
Professional aspects are confirmed to be the most prominent in the
decision-making regarding international mobility. People who place high
importance on work-related factors are more mobile, while people who place
higher importance on family-friendly environment and public safety prefer
staying in India. International student mobility is clearly a family decision.
Parents' support is crucial for moving abroad, in moral as well as in financial
terms. Normally, obligations towards family are put in first place ahead of
potential individual initiatives.
Keywords: location choices, pull factors, higher education, student migration,
India
JEL: F22 J61 I23 J24
20. Discrimination in the Irish Labour Market: Nationality, Ethnicity
and the Recession
Date: 2013-12-19
By: Gillian Kingston (Economic and Social Research Institute and Department of
Sociology, Trinity College Dublin)
Frances McGinnity (Economic and Social Research Institute and Department of
Sociology, Trinity College Dublin)
Philip J. O’Connell (UCD Geary Institute, University College Dublin)
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ucd:wpaper:201323&r=mig
Previous research shows that immigrants, in common with other groups that
suffer disadvantage in the labour market, are more vulnerable during recession
(Hoynes et al., 2012; McGinnity et al., 2013; Sierminska and Takhtamanova,
2010). However, little research has focused on the impact of the Great
Recession on work-related discrimination. We examine the extent to which
discrimination varies across different national-ethnic groups, and whether
discrimination increased between 2004, during an economic boom, and 2010, in
the midst of a severe recession. Our analysis draws on two large-scale
nationally representative surveys on the experience of labour market
discrimination. We find that overall immigrants do experience higher rates of
work based discrimination, however discrimination does not increase with the
recession. We find substantial variation in discrimination across
national-ethnic groups, and indicate that ethnicity plays an important
influence on
the experience of discrimination.
Keywords: Discrimination, recession, nationality, ethnicity, labour market
JEL: J61 J71
21. Irish Attitudes To Immigration During And After The Boom
Date: 2013-12-19
By: Kevin Denny (School of Economics University College Dublin and UCD Geary
Institute)
Cormac Ó Gráda (School of Economics University College Dublin)
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ucd:wpaper:201322&r=mig
Given the huge size, relatively speaking, of the human influx into Ireland over
the past decade or so, the evolution of Irish attitudes to immigration is of
more than parochial interest. In this paper we use the six rounds of the
European Social Survey (2002-2012) in seeking to account for those attitudes
and chart their evolution. We also employ standard Blinder-Oaxaca
decompositions in order to identify the relative importance of shifts in
‘tastes’ and of changes in underlying economic conditions in accounting for
changes before and after the collapse of the Celtic Tiger.
Keywords: public opinion, immigration, xenophobia
JEL: F22
22. Those Who Knock on Europe's Door Must Repent? Bilateral Border
Disputes and EU EnlargementNational Change
Date: 2013-11-01
By: Andrew Geddes and Andrew Taylor
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:erp:kfgxxx:p0054&r=mig
This paper explores a neglected aspect of the wider debate about EU
enlargement; namely bilateral disputes between a Member State and an applicant,
where the former uses, or threatens to use, its membership to block membership
to resolve a dispute. As we show through analysis of three cases - Italy and
Slovenia, Slovenia and Croatia, and Greece and Macedonia - the EU's
transformative power does not always flow 'outwards' towards the state seeking
membership. This raises interesting questions about enlargement asinternational
bargaining between sovereign states filtered via a supranational entity
formally responsible for the negotiations. Our cases suggest limits to the EU's
transformative power in the context of disputes that are linked to the meaning
and significance of borders. When enlargement intersects with identity
politics, the result can be potentially destabilizing in ways that can lead to
a decline in the EU's legitimacy. It is not surprising
that the Commission prefers disputes to be resolved bilaterally or via a
third-party. The author Andrew Geddes is Professor of Politics at the
University of Sheffield. He has written extensively on aspects of British,
European and EU politics, with a particularfocus on the politics of migration.
Recent publications include Migration and Mobility in the EU (with Christina
Boswell) and The EU and South East Europe: The Dynamics of Multi-Level
Governance and Europeanisation (with AndrewTaylor and Charles Lees). He was a
Visiting Fellow at the Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of
Europe" in June/July 2012. From February 2013,he will be lead investigator for
a 5-year European Research Council 'advanced'project on international migration
governance. Contact: a.geddes@xxxxxxxxxxxx.ukAndrew Taylor is Professor of
Politics at the University of Sheffield. He was principal investigator on the
ESRC funded project on the development of multi-level
governance in South East Europe. In recent years his work has focused on the
Europeanization of the Western Balkans and the nature of state effectiveness;
his most recent bookis State Failure (Palgrave Macmillan) and he is beginning a
research project on the EU's role in state-building in Western Balkans. He is
also working on the politics of bordering in the United Kingdom. Contact:
a.j.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Keywords: enlargement; identity; legitimacy
23. ¿Ha contribuido la población inmigrante a la convergencia
interregional en España?
Date: 2013-11-29
By: Fernandez-Leiceaga, Xoaquin
Lago-Peñas, Santiago
Sánchez, Patricio
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:52381&r=mig
The very strong foreign immigration in Spain between 1999 and 2009 has
generated very limited effects on interregional convergence of per capita GDP
and productivity, unlike what happened with the internal migration flows
between 1955 and 1979. This article is aimed at explaining why. Results show
that while GDP per capita and productivity have fallen in comparative terms in
regions attracting a higher proportion of immigrants, these regions have not
been the richest and most productive. Immigrants choose to go to regions where
there are more job opportunities or acquaintances and family networks, but not
necessarily to the most prosperous regions from a macroeconomic standpoint.
Keywords: migrations, inter-regional convergence, neoclassical model
JEL: J61 O15 R23
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