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| nep-mig | New Economics Papers |
| on Economics of Human Migration |
| Issue of 2018‒05‒21
eleven papers chosen by
Yuji Tamura
La Trobe University
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- Fairness, social norms and the cultural demand forredistribution
ByGillesLe Garrec
- The deterrence effect of immigration enforcement in transitcountries:
Evidence from Central American deportees ByMartínez Flores, Fernanda
- Immigration And The Displacement of Incumbent
HouseholdsByZenoAdams;Kristian Blickle;;
- Learning mobility grants and skill (mis)matching in thelabour market: the
case of the 'Master and Back' programme ByCrescenzi, Riccardo;Gagliardi,
Luisa;Orrù,Enrico
- Job Vacancies and Immigration: Evidence from Pre- andPost-Mariel Miami
ByJason Anastasopoulos;GeorgeJ. Borjas;Gavin G.Cook;Michael Lachanski
- Still More on Mariel: The Role of Race ByBorjas, George J.
- Assessing the role of migration in European labour forcegrowth by 2030
ByGilles Spielvogel;Michela Meghnagi
- The Political Impact of Immigration: Evidence from theUnited States
ByAnnaMaria Mayda;GiovanniPeri;Walter Steingress
- The contribution of migration to the dynamics of the labourforce in OECD
countries: 2005-2015 ByGilles Spielvogel;Michela Meghnagi
- Rental prices in Germany: A comparison between migrants andnatives
ByEilers,Lea;Paloyo, Alfredo R.;Vance,Colin
- The Impact of Migration on Fertility: An Overview ofForeign Research
ByKazenin, Konstantin
- Fairness,social norms and the cultural demand for redistribution
| By: | GillesLe Garrec (Observatoire français des conjonctures
économiques) |
| Abstract: | When studying attitudes towards redistribution, surveys
show thatindividualsdo care about fairness. They also show that the cultural
environment in whichpeople grow up affects their preferences about
redistribution. In this articlewe include these two components of the demand
for redistribution in order todevelop a mechanism for the cultural transmission
of the concern for fairness.The preferences of the young are partially shaped
through the observation andimitation of others' choices. More specifically,
observing during childhoodhow adults have collectively failed to implement fair
redistributive policieslowers the concern during adulthood for fairness or the
moral cost of notsupporting fair taxation. Based on this mechanism, the model
exhibits amultiplicity of history-dependent stationary states that may account
for thehuge and persistent differences in redistribution observed between
Europe andthe United States. It also explains why immigrants from countries
with apreference for greater redistribution continue to support
higherredistribution in their destination country. |
| Keywords: | Redistribution; Fairness; Majority rule; Social norms;
Endogenouspreferences |
| JEL: | H53 D63D72 |
| Date: | 2017–09 |
| URL: |
http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:spo:wpmain:info:hdl:2441/5i5aonalu59pfof3e60qjqalno&r=mig
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- The deterrence effect ofimmigration enforcement in transit countries:
Evidence from Central Americandeportees
| By: | Martínez Flores, Fernanda |
| Abstract: | Immigration enforcement cooperation between final
destination and transitcountries has increased in the last decades. However,
the question whetherthese measures are successful in deterring undocumented
migrants has not beenpreviously explored by the empirical literature. This
paper examines whetherthe Southern Border Plan, an immigration enforcement
program implemented bythe Mexican government in 2014, has curbed intentions of
unauthorized migrantsfrom El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras to migrate to
the United States.Combining surveys from Central American and Mexican deportees
and using a DiDapproach, I find that increased enforcement in Mexico decreases
the likelihoodof attempting repeated unauthorized crossings. The results
indicate that inthe short-run the cooperation between destination and transit
countries couldbe effective in deterring undocumented migrants. |
| Keywords: | immigration enforcement,deportees,Central
Americanmigrants,unauthorized,undocumented,remigration,transit countries |
| JEL: | F22 K42O15 |
| Date: | 2018 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:rwirep:749&r=mig ;|
- Immigration And TheDisplacement of Incumbent Households
| By: | ZenoAdams;Kristian Blickle;; |
| Abstract: | We make use of the universe of immigrants who arrived in
Switzerland between1992 and 2013, granular community level house price and wage
data as well asdetailed information on the Swiss population to study the
effects ofimmigration on the location choice of incumbent households.
Immigrationinfluences a household’s location choice through three distinct
channels:house price changes, labor market competition, and households’
sentimentregarding immigration. We find evidence of all three channels.
However, weshow that the channel to which a household responds most strongly
depends onthe type of immigration and the characteristics of the household. Our
researchprovides valuable insights into some of the effects of large
scaleimmigration. |
| Keywords: | Immigration, house prices, wages,
employment,gentrification,displacement |
| JEL: | D14D9 J61 R21 R23 |
| Date: | 2018–02 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:usg:sfwpfi:2018:09&r=mig ;|
- Learning mobilitygrants and skill (mis)matching in the labour market: the
case of the 'Master andBack' programme
| By: | Crescenzi, Riccardo;Gagliardi, Luisa;Orrù,Enrico |
| Abstract: | The paper looks at the geographical mobility of graduate
students and theirskill matching in the labour market. The paper assesses the
impact of alearning mobility grant scheme funded by the European Social Fund in
Sardinia(ex-Objective 1 region in the Italian Mezzogiorno). The scheme aims to
fosterregional human capital and increase the employability of local graduates
bycovering the cost of post-graduate studies in other regions or countries.
Theeconometric analysis is based on a unique dataset that combines
administrativedata on beneficiaries with information from a dedicated survey.
The resultssuggest that learning mobility grants can reinforce skill matching
only if theproblem of self-selection of the beneficiaries is properly
addressed. |
| Keywords: | mobility; skills; labour markets; regions; European
Union |
| JEL: | J24 J61R23 R58 |
| Date: | 2016–11 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ehl:lserod:87608&r=mig ;|
- Job Vacancies andImmigration: Evidence from Pre- and Post-Mariel Miami
| By: | Jason Anastasopoulos;GeorgeJ. Borjas;Gavin G.Cook;Michael
Lachanski |
| Abstract: | How does immigration affect labor market opportunities
in a receivingcountry?This paper contributes to the voluminous literature by
reporting findings froma new (but very old) data set. Beginning in 1951, the
Conference Boardconstructed a monthly job vacancy index by counting the number
of help-wantedads published in local newspapers in 51 metropolitan areas. We
use theHelp-Wanted Index (HWI) to document how immigration changes the number
of jobvacancies in the affected labor markets. Our analysis begins by
revisiting theMariel episode. The data reveal a marked decrease in Miami’s HWI
relative tomany alternative control groups in the first 4 or 5 years after
Mariel,followed by recovery afterwards. We find a similar initial decline in
thenumber of job vacancies after two other supply shocks that hit Miami over
thepast few decades: the initial wave of Cuban refugees in the early 1960s,
aswell as the 1995 refugees who were initially detoured to Guantanamo Bay.
Wealso look beyond Miami and estimate the generic spatial correlations
thatdominate the literature, correlating changes in the HWI with
immigrationacross metropolitan areas. These correlations consistently indicate
that moreimmigration is associated with fewer job vacancies. The trends in the
HWI seemto most strongly reflect changing labor market conditions for
low-skillworkers (in terms of both wages and employment), and a companion
textualanalysis of help-wanted ads in Miami before and after the Mariel supply
shocksuggests a slight decline in the relative number of low-skill
jobvacancies. |
| JEL: | J6 J61J63 |
| Date: | 2018–05 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nbr:nberwo:24580&r=mig ;|
- Still More onMariel: The Role of Race
| By: | Borjas, George J. (Harvard University) |
| Abstract: | Card’s (1990) study of the Mariel supply shock remains
an importantcornerstone of both the literature that measures the labor market
impact ofimmigration, and of the “stylized fact†that immigration might
nothavemuch impact on the wage of workers in a receiving country. My
recentreappraisal of the Mariel evidence (Borjas, 2017) revealed that the wage
oflow-skill workers in Miami declined substantially in the years after
Mariel,and has already encouraged a number of re-reexaminations. Most
recently,Clemens and Hunt (2017) argue that a data quirk in the CPS implies
that wagetrends in the sample of non-Hispanic prime-age men examined in my
paper doesnot correctly represent what happened to wages in post-Mariel
Miami.Specifically, there was a substantial increase in the black share
ofMiami’slow-skill workforce in the relevant period (particularly between the
1979 and1980 survey years of the March CPS). Because African-American men earn
lessthan white men, this increase in the black share would spuriously produce
adrop in the average low-skill wage in Miami. This paper examines therobustness
of the evidence presented in my original paper to statisticaladjustments that
control for the increasing number of black men inMiami’slow-skill workforce.
The evidence consistently indicates that therace-adjusted low-skill wage in
Miami fell significantly relative to the wagein other labor markets shortly
after 1980 before fully recovering by1990. |
| JEL: | J61 |
| Date: | 2017–06 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ecl:harjfk:rwp17-029&r=mig ;|
- Assessing the role ofmigration in European labour force growth by 2030
| By: | Gilles Spielvogel;Michela Meghnagi |
| Abstract: | This paper presents the methodology as well as the
results of the jointOECD-European Commission project Migration-Demography
Database: A monitoringsystem of the demographic impact of migration and
mobility. The objective ofthe project is to evaluate the contribution of
migration to past and futurelabour market dynamics across EU and OECD
countries. After assessing the roleof migration over the last five to 10 years
in shaping the occupational andeducational composition of the labour force,
this project looks at thepotential contribution of migration to the labour
force in a range ofalternative scenarios. This paper presents the results from
the second part ofthe project: it focuses on projections over the period
2015-2030, and aims atidentifying the drivers of changes in working-age
population and activepopulation in European countries, and in particular the
role of migrationflows. |
| Keywords: | Labour force, Migration, Population projections,
Working-agepopulation |
| JEL: | F22 J11J61 |
| Date: | 2018–05–16 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:oec:elsaab:204-en&r=mig ;|
- The Political Impactof Immigration: Evidence from the United States
| By: | AnnaMaria Mayda;GiovanniPeri;Walter Steingress |
| Abstract: | In this paper, we estimate the effect on housing prices
of the expansion ofthe Vancouver SkyTrain rapid transit network during the
period 2001–11. Weextend the canonical residential sorting equilibrium
framework to includecommuting time in the household utility function. We
estimate householdpreferences in the sorting model using confidential micro
data and geographicinformation systems (GIS) data on the SkyTrain network.
Using these preferenceestimates and observed data for 2001, we simulate the
equilibrium effects ofexpanding the SkyTrain. In our counterfactual analysis,
the SkyTrain expansionincreases housing prices not only in neighborhoods where
the expansionoccurred, but also in those with access to pre-existing segments
of thenetwork. We show how these network housing price effects depend on
householdcommuting patterns, and discuss the implications of our results for
targetedtaxation policies designed to capture the housing price appreciation
stemmingfrom a public transit investment. |
| Keywords: | International topics, Labour markets |
| JEL: | F22J61 |
| Date: | 2018 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bca:bocawp:18-19&r=mig ;|
- The contribution ofmigration to the dynamics of the labour force in OECD
countries:2005-2015
| By: | Gilles Spielvogel;Michela Meghnagi |
| Abstract: | This paper presents the methodology as well as the
results of the jointOECD-EC project Migration-Demography Database: A monitoring
system of thedemographic impact of migration and mobility. The objective of the
project isto evaluate the contribution of migration to past and future labour
marketdynamics across OECD countries. After assessing the role of migration
over thelast five to 10 years in shaping the occupational and educational
compositionof the labour force, this project looks at the potential
contribution ofmigration to the labour force in a range of alternative
scenarios. This paperpresents the results from the first part of the project:
it focuses on thechanges that have taken place in the last 10 years and studies
how migrationflows have contributed to the dynamics of the labour force, in
particular incomparison to other labour market entries. It also analyses the
contributionof migration in specific skills categories and in
specificoccupations. |
| Keywords: | Education, Labour force, Migration, Occupations,
Working-agepopulation |
| JEL: | F22 J11J61 |
| Date: | 2018–05–16 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:oec:elsaab:203-en&r=mig ;|
- Rental prices inGermany: A comparison between migrants and natives
| By: | Eilers,Lea;Paloyo, Alfredo R.;Vance,Colin |
| Abstract: | This paper deals with the question of whether migrants
in Germany pay a rentpremium for apartments of comparable quality and
neighborhood characteristics.We use a twostep selection-correction model
augmented by a control function toaccount for nonrandom neighborhood choice.
The estimation sample is a uniquelyassembled panel comprising the German
Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), informationon household and apartment
characteristics, as well as georeferenced datadescribing neighborhood quality.
We find no evidence that having a migrantbackground is directly associated with
higher rent. Migrants may neverthelessface higher rents by settling in
neighborhoods populated by a high share offoreigners, which we find has a
positive and statistically significantrelationship with the rent. |
| Keywords: | migrants,discrimination,housing market |
| JEL: | R23 J15R21 |
| Date: | 2017 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:rwirep:736&r=mig ;|
- The Impact ofMigration on Fertility: An Overview of Foreign Research
| By: | Kazenin, Konstantin (Russian Presidential Academy of
NationalEconomy and Public Administration (RANEPA), Gaidar Institute for
EconomicPolicy) |
| Abstract: | The preprint is devoted to a technique of studying the
impact of migrationonfertility. Studies of this problem are becoming
increasingly relevant againstthe backdrop of an increase in the scale of world
migration. The preprintconsiders the main hypotheses tested in most modern
studies of migration andfertility. For a number of countries of the world,
which are today the largest"recipients" of migration, the results of studies on
the impact of migrationon fertility are examined. The review includes both
studies based on officialstatistics and studies based on quantitative
sociological surveys ofmigrants. |
| Date: | 2018–04 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rnp:wpaper:041804&r=mig ;|
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