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| nep-mig | New Economics Papers |
| on Economics of Human Migration |
| Issue of 2019‒07‒08
nine papers chosen by
Yuji Tamura
La Trobe University
| |
- Living with the Neighbors: The Effect of Venezuelan ForcedMigration on
Wages in Colombia ByLeonardo Peñaloza Pacheco
- Migration and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Effect ofReturning
Refugees on Export Performance in the Former Yugoslavia ByBahar,Dany;Özgüzel,
Cem;Hauptmann, Andreas;Rapoport, Hillel
- “Gender Shock†and Household Labor Allocation:Dowry and Labor Migration
in Pakistan ByCheema, Ahmed Raza;Coxhead,Ian
- COMPARISON IS THE THIEF OF JOY. DOES SOCIAL COMPARISONAFFECT MIGRANTS’
SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING? ByManuela Stranges;DanieleVignoli;Alessandra Venturini
- Equal treatment for highly qualified labour migrants ByHerzfeld Olsson,
Petra
- Brain Drain or Brain Gain? International labor mobility andhuman capital
formation ByAnelíBongersy;Carmen Díaz-Roldán;JoséL. Torres
- The impact of migration on earnings inequality ByJackson, Osborne
- The impact of migration on earnings inequality in NewEngland ByJackson,
Osborne
- Internal Migration in the United States: A ComprehensiveComparative
Assessment of the Consumer Credit Panel ByDeWaard,Jack;Johnson,Janna;Whitaker,
Stephan
- Living with theNeighbors: The Effect of Venezuelan Forced Migration on
Wages inColombia
| By: | Leonardo Peñaloza Pacheco (Facultad de Ciencias
Económicas,Universidad Nacional de La Plata) |
| Abstract: | The aim of this paper is to estimate the causal effect
of the migration ofVenezuelans to Colombia on the Colombian real wage, since
2016. In the secondsemester of 2016, the borders between Colombia and Venezuela
were reopenedafter a year of being closed due to a political crisis between the
twocountries; this re-opening is exploited as an identification strategy.
Usingdata from the Unidad Administrativa Especial de Migraci´on Colombia and
theRegistro Administrativo de Migrantes Venezolanos in Colombia, we
estimatethat, the migratory flow of Venezuelans to Colombia increased the
EconomicallyActive Population of the border areas of La Guajira and Norte de
Santander byapproximately 10% and 15%, since its reopening. We implement
adifferences-in-differences methodology and the Synthetic Control Method
andfind that the increase in labor supply in these regions that resulted from
themigratory flow generated a decline in real hourly wages of approximately
6%-9%on average. This decrease in real wages appears to be greater for men
ascompared to women. There is also evidence of a greater drop in real
wagesamong people with lower levels of qualification and in conditions of
informalemployment |
| JEL: | J31 J61F22 |
| Date: | 2019–07 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:dls:wpaper:0248&r=mig ;|
- Migration andPost-Conflict Reconstruction: The Effect of Returning
Refugees on ExportPerformance in the Former Yugoslavia
| By: | Bahar,Dany (Brookings Institution);Özgüzel, Cem (Université
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne);Hauptmann, Andreas (Institute for Employment
Research (IAB),Nuremberg);Rapoport, Hillel (Paris School of Economics) |
| Abstract: | During the early 1990s Germany offered temporary
protection to over 600,000Yugoslavian refugees fleeing war. By 2000, many had
been repatriated. Weexploit this natural experiment to investigate the role of
migrants inpost-conflict reconstruction in the former Yugoslavia, using exports
asoutcome. Using confidential social security data to capture intensity
ofrefugee workers to German industries–and exogenous allocation rules for
asylumseekers within Germany as instrument—we find an elasticity of exports
toreturn migration between 0.08 to 0.24. Our results are stronger
inknowledge-intensive industries and for workers in occupations intensive
inanalytical and managerial skills. |
| Keywords: | migration, refugees, knowledge diffusion, management,
exports,productivity |
| JEL: | O33 F14F22 |
| Date: | 2019–06 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp12412&r=mig ;|
- “Gender Shockâ€and Household Labor Allocation: Dowry and Labor Migration
in Pakistan
| By: | Cheema, Ahmed Raza (University of Sargodha);Coxhead,Ian
(University of Wisconsin-Madison,) |
| Abstract: | Dowry is a cultural practice, ubiquitous in South Asia,
in which thebride’sfamily provides gifts and payments to the groom’s family
at the time ofmarriage. Using data from Pakistan we find that the presence in a
household ofunmarried girls and young women is a very strong predictor of
propensity toreceive remittances from family members working elsewhere. Boys
have no sucheffect. This is consistent with household labor reallocation in
response tothe need to generate savings for dowry expenses. The strength of the
gendershock is modified in predictable ways by variation over wealth, location
andmigrant destinations. |
| JEL: | D14 J12J61 O15 |
| Date: | 2019–06 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ecl:wisagr:593&r=mig ;|
- COMPARISON IS THETHIEF OF JOY. DOES SOCIAL COMPARISON AFFECT MIGRANTS’
SUBJECTIVEWELL-BEING?
| By: | Manuela Stranges (Dipartimento di Economia, Statistica e
Finanza"Giovanni Anania" - DESF, Università della Calabria);DanieleVignoli
(Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni 'G. Parenti'- DiSIA,
Università degli Studi di Firenze);Alessandra Venturini (Dipartimento di
Economia e Statistica"Cognetti de Martiis", Campus "Luigi Einaudi", Università
degli Studi diTorino) |
| Abstract: | This paper contributes to the growing strand of
literature that investigatesmigrants’ subjective wellbeing by analysing how the
social comparison with tworeference groups (natives and other migrants) within
the host country affectsmigrants’ life satisfaction. Using data from six rounds
of the European SocialSurvey, we constructed two measures of economic distance
that compare eachmigrant’s situation with the average of the group of natives
and the group ofmigrants with similar characteristics. Our results indicate
that when thedisadvantage between the migrant and the reference groups becomes
smaller,migrant’s life satisfaction increases. The effect of the social
comparisonwith natives appears larger than the social comparison with migrants
and, inboth cases, it is stronger for individuals with higher levels of
education. Wealso show that social comparison is stronger for second generation
migrantsthan for first generation migrants and, within this latter group,
itintensifies as length of stay in the host country increases. Overall, the
roleof social comparison seems crucial to understanding patterns of integration
inan enlarged Europe. |
| Keywords: | subjective well-being, migrants, social comparison |
| JEL: | I31F22 |
| Date: | 2019–06 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:clb:wpaper:201906&r=mig ;|
- Equal treatment forhighly qualified labour migrants
| By: | Herzfeld Olsson, Petra (Law Faculty, Stockholm university) |
| Abstract: | According to EU-law, third country national labour
migrants shall be treatedequally to local workers with regard to wages. The aim
of this working paperis to clarify whether Swedish law meets this demand with
regard to highlyqualified labour migrants. The analysis reveals that the
combined effect ofentry conditions and the content of the collective agreements
applicable inthe sectors where highly qualified labour migrants work makes it
difficult tosafeguard that they are treated equally with comparable national
workers. Thestudy also demonstrates that Swedish law does not provide highly
qualifiedlabour migrants with any robust means to enforce equal treatment.
Hence, it isnot likely that Swedish law complies with EU law, at least not for
thoseworkers employed by an entity in Sweden. For labour migrants
intra-corporatetransferred or posted to Sweden in other ways the EU law demands
are lessclear. |
| Keywords: | Highly qualified labour migrants; pay; collective
agreements; equaltreatment |
| JEL: | J31J61 J71 J83 K31 |
| Date: | 2019–06–10 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:ifauwp:2019_014&r=mig ;|
- Brain Drain or BrainGain? International labor mobility and human capital
formation
| By: | AnelíBongersy (Universidad de Málaga);Carmen Díaz-Roldán
(Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha);JoséL. Torres (Universidad de Málaga) |
| Abstract: | This paper studies the impact of international labor
migration on humancapital invest- ment in both destination and origin countries
using anintegrated theoretical framework. We develop a two-country Dynamic
StochasticGeneral Equilibrium human capital investment model with international
labormobility, in which both decision to migrate and to invest in skill
acquisitionare endogenous. We show that human capital formation process in the
coun-tries of origin is very sensible to migration policies implemented
bydestination countries. Our results show that human capital accumulation in
thecountry of origin is encouraged by the possibility of emigration to
higherlabor productivity countries, supporting the recent view of the "brain
gain"hypothesis. Productivity shocks hitting the destination country reduces
humancapital investment by natives but increase human capital investment in
thecountry of origin when migration is allowed. Finally, we find that
migrationincreases world human capital, increasing the stock of human capital
in bothdestination and origin countries. |
| Keywords: | Migration; Brain Drain; Brain Gain; Human capital
formation; Migrationpolicy |
| JEL: | F22 J24J61 |
| Date: | 2018–04 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:aee:wpaper:1804&r=mig ;|
- The impact of migrationon earnings inequality
| By: | Jackson, Osborne (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston) |
| Abstract: | This paper examines the impact of migration on earnings
inequality using1940–2015 data from the U.S. census and American Community
Survey. Despitemeasurement challenges, I successfully replicate existing
findings regardingnational trends in earnings inequality and migration, and
subsequently analyzeregional and state patterns. Using 1940 birthplace
information to instrumentfor migration, I find that recent immigration mildly
increases the top decileearnings share, while recent in-migration and
out-migration have nosignificant effects on such inequality. I estimate that
immigrationcontributed 5.8 percent to the observed rise in U.S. earnings
inequality from1950 to 2015, primarily through a non-migrant channel. |
| Keywords: | migration; earnings inequality |
| JEL: | D31 F22R23 |
| Date: | 2018–08–01 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fip:fedbwp:19-5&r=mig ;|
- The impact of migrationon earnings inequality in New England
| By: | Jackson, Osborne (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston) |
| Abstract: | Migration plays an important role in the New England
economy; absentimmigration, the region’s population and workforce would have
shrunk in recentyears. Yet increasingly, immigrant inflows have been met with
legislativeopposition at both the national and regional levels, motivated in
part byconcerns that immigration may be an important factor driving the marked
risein earnings inequality. The research findings presented in this
report,however, indicate that immigration accounts for a very small
portion—only 6.0percent—of the rising earnings inequality that the region has
experienced.These results suggest that policymakers interested in responding to
increasedinequality should pursue avenues other than immigration reform. |
| Keywords: | inequality; immigration; New England; NEPPC |
| Date: | 2019–06–01 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fip:fedbcr:19-2&r=mig ;|
- Internal Migration inthe United States: A Comprehensive Comparative
Assessment of the Consumer CreditPanel
| By: | DeWaard,Jack (University of Minnesota);Johnson,Janna
(University of Minnesota);Whitaker, Stephan (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)
|
| Abstract: | We introduce and provide the first comprehensive
comparative assessment oftheFederal Reserve Bank of New York/Equifax Consumer
Credit Panel (CCP) as avaluable and underutilized data set for studying
internal migration within theUnited States. Relative to other data sources on
US internal migration, theCCP permits highly detailed cross-sectional and
longitudinal analyses ofmigration, both temporally and geographically. We
compare cross-sectional andlongitudinal estimates of migration from the CCP to
similar estimates derivedfrom the American Community Survey, the Current
Population Survey, InternalRevenue Service data, the National Longitudinal
Survey of Youth, the PanelStudy of Income Dynamics, and the Survey of Income
and Program Participation.Our results establish the comparative utility and
illustrate some of theunique advantages of the CCP relative to other data
sources on US internalmigration. We conclude by identifying some profitable
directions for futureresearch on US internal migration using the CCP, as well
as reminding readersof the strengths and limitations of these data. More
broadly, this papercontributes to discussions and debates on improving the
availability, quality,and comparability of migration data. |
| Keywords: | Internal migration; Consumer Credit Panel; Comparative;
Cross-sectional;Longitudinal; |
| JEL: | C81 J61O15 R23 |
| Date: | 2019–06–21 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fip:fedcwq:180401&r=mig ;|
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