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| nep-mig | New Economics Papers |
| on Economics of Human Migration |
| Issue of 2018‒05‒07
nine papers chosen by
Yuji Tamura
La Trobe University
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- The volatility effect of diaspora’s location: A migrationportfolio
approach ByEricRougier;NicolasYol
- Immigrant Category of Admission and the Earnings of Adultsand Children:
How far does the Apple Fall? ByWarman,Casey;Webb,Matthew D.;Worswick,
Christopher
- A woman's touch? Female migration and economic developmentin the United
States ByLee,Neil;Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés;von Berlepsch, Viola
- The risk and refugee migration ByGéraldine
Bocqueho;MarcDeschamps;JennyHelstroffer;JulienJacob;MajlindaJoxhe
- The 2015 Refugee Crisis in Germany: Concerns aboutImmigration and Populism
ByAlessandro Sola
- Effects of Distance and Borders on International andInterregional Tourist
Flows: A micro-gravity analysis ByMORIKAWA Masayuki
- The Impact of Immigration on Firm-Level Offshoring ByWilliam W.
Olney;DarioPozzoli
- Media coverage and immigration worries: Econometricevidence ByBenesch,
Christine;Loretz,Simon;Stadelmann, David;Thomas,Tobias
- Ethnic groups' income inequality within and across Italianregions
ByMussida, Chiara;Parisi, Maria Laura
- The volatilityeffect of diaspora’s location: A migration portfolio
approach
| By: | EricRougier;NicolasYol |
| Abstract: | Remittances can transmit volatility from migrants’ host
countries tomigrant’shome country for some common patterns of a country
diaspora’s geographicaldistribution. In a migration portfolio model, the
overall risk of volatilityof any set of diaspora location is decomposed into a
contagion and aconcentration risks: a diaspora located in more volatile
destinations inducesa higher contagion risk, while a diaspora located in few
destination countriesincreases the concentration risk. A series of estimations
on a panel of 93countries over 1995-2015 provide evidence for these two risks
and theircumulative effects. Estimation of a structural model confirms that
thegeography of diaspora has an indirect impact on the origin country’s
aggregateinstability through remittances. |
| Keywords: | Migration, remittances, macroeconomic volatility |
| JEL: | F24 F3 F4 J61 O11 O15 O47 |
| Date: | 2018 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:grt:wpegrt:2018-09&r=mig ;|
- Immigrant Category ofAdmission and the Earnings of Adults and Children:
How far does the AppleFall?
| By: | Warman,Casey;Webb,Matthew D.;Worswick, Christopher |
| Abstract: | Immigrants in many Western countries have experienced
poor economicoutcomes.This has led to a lack of integration of child immigrants
(the 1.5 generation)and the second generation in some countries. However, in
Canada, childimmigrants and the second generation have on average integrated
very welleconomically. We examine the importance of Canada's admission classes
todetermine if there is an earnings benefit of the selection under the
EconomicClasses to: 1) the Adult Arrival immigrants and 2) the Child
Arrivalimmigrants (1.5 generation) once old enough to enter the labour market.
Weemploy unique administrative data on landing records matched with
subsequentincome tax records that also allows for the linking of the records of
AdultArrival parents and their Child Arrival children. We find, relative to
theFamily Class, the Adult Arrivals in the Skilled Worker category have
earningsthat are 29% higher for men and 38% higher for women. These
differencespersist even after controlling for detailed personal characteristics
such aseducation and language fluency at 21% for men and 27% for women. Child
Arrivalimmigrants landing in the Skilled Worker Class have earnings advantages
(asadults) over their Family Class counterparts of 17% for men and 21% for
women.These Child Arrival Skilled Worker advantages remain at 9% for men and
14% forwomen after controlling for child characteristics, the Principal
Applicantparent's characteristics and the parent's subsequent income in Canada.
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| Keywords: | Canada,Immigration,Earnings,1.5 generation,Second
generation,Childimmigrants,Integration,Points System,Skilled Workers,Economic
Class |
| JEL: | J15J13 J31 J61 J62 |
| Date: | 2018 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:glodps:196&r=mig ;|
- A woman's touch?Female migration and economic development in the United
States
| By: | Lee,Neil;Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés;von Berlepsch, Viola |
| Abstract: | Does the economic effect of immigrant women differ from
that of immigrantsingeneral? This paper examines if gender has influenced the
short- and long-termeconomic impact of mass migration to the US, using Census
microdata from 1880and 1910. By means of ordinary least squares and
instrumental variableestimations, the analysis shows that a greater
concentration of immigrantwomen is significantly associated with lower levels
of economic development inUS counties. However, immigrant women also shaped
economic developmentpositively, albeit indirectly, via their children.
Communities with morechildren born to foreign mothers and that successfully
managed to integratefemale immigrants experienced greater economic growth than
those dominated bychildren of foreign-born fathers or American-born parents. |
| Keywords: | Counties; Development; Economic Growth; Gender;
migration; US. |
| JEL: | F22J16 J61 O15 R23 |
| Date: | 2018–04 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:12878&r=mig ;|
- Therisk and refugee migration
| By: | Géraldine Bocqueho (Université de Lorraine (UL));MarcDeschamps
(Université de Bourgogne);JennyHelstroffer (Université de Lorraine
(UL));JulienJacob (Université de Lorraine (UL));MajlindaJoxhe (Université du
Luxembourg (Uni.lu)) |
| Abstract: | This paper uses the experimental setup of Tanaka et al.
(2010) to measurerefugees’ risk preferences. A sample of 206 asylum seekers was
interviewed in2017-18 in Luxembourg. Contrary to studies which focus on risk
aversion ingeneral, we analyze its components using a cumulative prospect
theory (CPT)frame-work. We show that refugees exhibit particularly low levels
of riskaversion compared to other populations and that CPT provides a better
fit formodelling risk attitudes. Moreover, we include randomised temporary
treatmentsprovoking emotions and find a small significant impact on
probabilitydistortion. Robustness of the Tanaka et al. (2010) experimental
framework isconfirmed by including treatments regarding the embedding effect.
Finally, wepropose a theoretical model of refugee migration that integrates the
insightsfrom our experimental outcomes regarding the functional form of
refugees’decision under risk and the estimated parameter values. The model is
thensimulated using the data from our study |
| Keywords: | Refugee migration; Risk preferences; Experimental
economics; Cumulativeprospect theory; Psychological priming |
| JEL: | C93D74 D81 D91 F22 |
| Date: | 2018–03 |
| URL: |
http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:spo:wpmain:info:hdl:2441/6mekga2ph18vda5qbuop2ckgkn&r=mig
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- The 2015 RefugeeCrisis in Germany: Concerns about Immigration and Populism
| By: | Alessandro Sola |
| Abstract: | This paper investigates the effect of the refugee
crisis, and the relatedgovernment’s asylum policy, on concerns about
immigration of the Germanpopulation. Exploiting exogenous variation in survey
interview timing of theGerman Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), I employ a
difference-in-differencesstrategy to estimate the short-term causal effect of
the refugee crisis onconcerns about immigration. The estimated effect is
substantial, representingan increase in concerns of around 22%, compared to the
pre-refugee crisisbaseline level. Interestingly, I find that this increase was
twice as largefor East Germans, compared to West Germans. In a second section,
I showconcerns about immigration are positively correlated with political
supportfor the relatively new, right-wing populist party Alternative für
Deutschland(AfD). However, using the variability in concerns generated by the
refugeecrisis, I find no evidence of a causal effect of concerns on
politicalpreferences in the short term. |
| Keywords: | Concerns about immigration, refugee crisis, Germany,
AfD, populism,political preferences |
| JEL: | F22 J61D72 H12 |
| Date: | 2018 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:diw:diwsop:diw_sp966&r=mig ;|
- Effects of Distanceand Borders on International and Interregional Tourist
Flows: A micro-gravityanalysis
| By: | MORIKAWA Masayuki |
| Abstract: | Although there have been a number of studies that have
applied the gravitymodel to migration and tourist flows, analyses covering both
international andintranational movements have been scarce. This study, using
unique officialstatistics for accommodation facilities in Japan, empirically
analyzes thedeterminants of both international and intranational tourist flows.
Accordingto gravity model estimations, physical distance has a large, negative
effecton tourist flows, but the quantitative magnitude of these effects
differslittle between foreign and domestic (interregional) tourists. The
bordereffect on tourist flows is quantitatively large, and the number of
touristsfrom foreign countries is more than 60% smaller than that from domestic
ones.These results suggest that policies mitigating border barriers may
contributeto a higher number of foreign tourists. |
| Date: | 2018–04 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:eti:dpaper:18021&r=mig ;|
- The Impact ofImmigration on Firm-Level Offshoring
| By: | William W. Olney (Williams College);DarioPozzoli (Copenhagen
Business School and the Tuborg Centre for Globalizationand Firms) |
| Abstract: | This paper studies the relationship between immigration
and offshoring byexamining whether an influx of foreign workers reduces the
need for firms torelocate jobs abroad. We exploit a Danish quasi-natural
experiment in whichimmigrants were randomly allocated to municipalities using a
refugee dispersalpolicy and we use the Danish employer-employee matched data
set covering theuniverse of workers and firms over the period 1995-2011. Our
findings showthat an exogenous influx of immigrants into a municipality reduces
firm-leveloffshoring at both the extensive and intensive margins. The fact
thatimmigration and offshoring are substitutes has important policy
implications,since restrictions on one may encourage the other. While the
multilateralrelationship is negative, a subsequent bilateral analysis shows
thatimmigrants have connections in their country of origin that increase
thelikelihood that firms offshore to that particular foreign country. |
| Keywords: | Immigration, Offshoring |
| JEL: | F22 F16J61 F23 |
| Date: | 2018–04 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wil:wileco:2018-02&r=mig ;|
- Media coverage andimmigration worries: Econometric evidence
| By: | Benesch, Christine;Loretz,Simon;Stadelmann,
David;Thomas,Tobias |
| Abstract: | This paper empirically explores the link between mass
media coverage ofmigration and immigration worries. Using detailed data on
media coverage inGermany, we show that the amount of media reports regarding
migration issuesis positively associated with concerns about immigration among
the Germanpopulation. The association is robust to the inclusion of
time-variantindividual control variables and individual fixed-effects. We
employ mediaspillovers from the neighboring country of Switzerland, which occur
due toreferendum decisions on immigration as an instrumental variable to
addressendogeneity concerns. The IV estimates suggest that media coverage has
acausal impact on immigration worries. Exploring heterogeneous effects
betweenrespondents, the results reveal that the link between media reports
andimmigration worries is particularly relevant for women and respondents
activein the workforce. |
| Keywords: | media,migration,news spillovers,political attitudes |
| JEL: | L8 D7F2 |
| Date: | 2018 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:dicedp:288&r=mig ;|
- Ethnic groups' incomeinequality within and across Italian regions
| By: | Mussida, Chiara;Parisi, Maria Laura |
| Abstract: | The relationship between regional income inequality in
Italy and thephenomenon of migration is still under current debate.
Policymakers andresearchers worry about the process of assimilation of the new
entrants, in acountry where regional disparities are strong. We provide
evidence thatregional income disparities apply to ethnic groups of migrants,
too, like thegroup of nationals, but the largest source of inequality is still
withinregion and within group. We address this issue by using the 2009 wave
ofEUSILC data and the ISTAT CVS data in 2009, the latter offering
specificinformation on households with foreigners/migrants by main ethnic
groups. Wecalculate several indexes of income inequality because of their
specificsensitivity to different portions of the Italian income distribution.
We alsoestimate the main determinants of such inequality. Our results suggest
that,above all, women with very young children and individuals with
secondaryeducation belong to categories with significantly increased income
inequality,whereas those highly educated and leaving in the Centre-North of
Italy belongto categories with reduced inequality. Regional unemployment is
associated tolower inequality, especially among those low-income earners, while
higherrelative mean regional income pushes inequality upwards |
| Keywords: | regional income inequality, household income inequality,
migration, ethnicgroups, Italy |
| JEL: | D31 F22O15 R23 |
| Date: | 2017–01–01 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:85788&r=mig ;|
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