Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles) ISSN (Print) 1468-2702 - ISSN (Online) 1468-2710 Published by Oxford University Press[419 journals]
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Authors:Kerr W; Rapoport H. Pages: 217 - 219 Abstract: Immigration is a central topic in public and public policy debates and will remain a critical issue in the foreseeable future. To reflect this importance and create a forum for exchange between economists and policymakers, the OECD’s Immigration Unit and CEPII, a French public think-tank belonging to the Prime Minister’s Office, jointly created an annual conference on ‘Immigration in OECD countries’ in 2010. They have been joined by the Luxembourg Institute on Socio-Economic Research (LISER) in 2020. Since the beginning, the conference has taken place in December at the OECD headquarters in Paris with additional support from scientific partners such as the Fondazione Rodolfo De Benedetti, IRES (Louvain), the University of Luxembourg, the University of Lille and the Paris School of Economics. Over the years, it has hosted keynote lectures by scholars such as Christian Dustmann, Leah Platt-Boustan, Assaf Razin, Tim Hatton, George Borjas, Richard Freeman, Alberto Alesina, Giovanni Peri, Frederic Docquier, Jennifer Hunt, Dani Rodrik, Paola Giuliano, Eliana La Ferrara, Christina Gathmann, Thierry Mayer and Giovanni Facchini. PubDate: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbac003 Issue No:Vol. 22, No. 2 (2022)
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Authors:Munk M; Nikolka T, Poutvaara P. Pages: 263 - 287 Abstract: AbstractWe analyze couples’ joint decisions about emigration and labor force participation using survey data on Danish emigrants, combined with full population administrative data. Couples are most likely to emigrate if the male partner or both partners hold a college degree and least likely to emigrate if neither of the partners is college educated. Probability that a dual-earner couple emigrates increases with the primary earner’s income. In most couples, both partners work before emigration, while after migrating outside the Nordic countries almost half of the women stay at home. Survey responses reveal that men mainly migrate for work reasons and women for family reasons. Our findings suggest that the dual-earner model may not be strongly ingrained among emigrating couples. Instead, female labor force participation abroad varies widely between different destinations. PubDate: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbab050 Issue No:Vol. 22, No. 2 (2022)
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Authors:Ortega J; Verdugo G. Pages: 221 - 260 Abstract: AbstractWe study the impact of local immigration inflows on natives’ wages using a large French administrative panel from 1976 to 2007. We show that local immigration inflows are followed by reallocations of blue-collar natives across commuting zones. Because these reallocations vary with the initial occupation, and blue-collar location movers have wages below the blue-collar average, controlling for changes in local composition is crucial to assess how wages adjust to immigration. Immigration temporarily lowers the wages of blue-collar workers, with unskilled workers experiencing larger losses. Location movers lose more than stayers in terms of daily wages but move to locations with cheaper housing. PubDate: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbab029 Issue No:Vol. 22, No. 2 (2021)
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Authors:Bertoli S; Docquier F, Rapoport H, et al. Pages: 289 - 323 Abstract: AbstractWe use a multilevel approach to investigate whether a general and robust relationship between weather shocks and (internal and international) migration intentions can be uncovered in Western African countries. We combine individual survey data with measures of localized weather shocks for 13 countries over the 2008–2016 period. A meta-analysis on results from about 51,000 regressions is conducted to identify the specification of weather anomalies that maximizes the goodness of fit of our empirical model. We then use this best specification to document heterogeneous mobility responses to weather shocks. We find that variability in Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index/rainfall is associated with changing intentions to move locally or internationally in a few countries only. However, the significance, sign and magnitude of the effect are far from being robust and consistent across countries. These differences might be due to imperfections in the data or to differences in long-term climate conditions and adaptation capabilities. They may also suggest that credit constraints are internalized differently in different settings, or that moving internally is not a relevant option as weather conditions are spatially correlated while moving abroad is an option of last resort. Although our multilevel approach allows us to connect migration intentions with the timing and spatial dimension of weather shocks, identifying a common specification that governs weather-driven mobility decisions is a very difficult, if not impossible, task, even for countries belonging to the same region. Our findings also call for extreme caution before generalizing results from specific case studies. PubDate: Thu, 25 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbab043 Issue No:Vol. 22, No. 2 (2021)
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Authors:Batut C; Schneider-Strawczynski S. Pages: 327 - 350 Abstract: AbstractThis article investigates the local economic cost of hosting refugees. Using administrative data in France, we show that the opening of small housing centers for refugees decreases the economic activity in hosting municipalities. We demonstrate that this downturn is related to a decline in the population by around 2% due to fewer people moving to hosting municipalities. We show that this avoidance behavior of natives results from prejudices, and is unlikely to be driven by a labor market supply shock from the arrival of refugees. We also estimate the aggregate cost of hosting refugees. PubDate: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbab014 Issue No:Vol. 22, No. 2 (2021)
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Authors:Fasani F; Frattini T, Minale L. Pages: 351 - 393 Abstract: AbstractWe study the labour market performance of refugees vis-à-vis comparable migrants across 20 European countries and over time. In the first part of our analysis, we document that labour market outcomes for refugees are consistently worse than those for other migrants. Refugees are 11.6% less likely to have a job and 22% more likely to be unemployed than other migrants with similar characteristics. Their income, occupational quality and labour market participation are also relatively weaker. These gaps are larger relative to economic than non-economic migrants, and persist until about 10–15 years after immigration. In the second part of our analysis, we investigate the role of economic conditions and migration and asylum policy regimes at the time of arrival in shaping integration paths of refugees. First, we find that immigrating in a recession produces scarring effects for all migrants but no differential effect for forced migrants, leaving little role for this channel to explain observed refugee gaps. Secondly, we focus on the impact on refugees of being subject to spatial dispersal policies. Our estimates imply that dispersed refugees experience a persistent impact on their residential choices and substantial long run losses in their economic integration with respect to non-dispersed refugees. PubDate: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbab011 Issue No:Vol. 22, No. 2 (2021)
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Authors:Amuedo-Dorantes C; Arenas-Arroyo E. Pages: 395 - 422 Abstract: AbstractDomestic violence is a serious under-reported crime in the United States, especially among immigrant women. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was an attempt to partially address this problem by allowing battered immigrants to petition for legal status without relying on the sponsorship of an abusive U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident spouse. The tougher immigration policy climate may have made immigrant women more vulnerable to domestic violence, as well as more reluctant to report domestic violence to law enforcement. Sanctuary policies, which limit local law enforcement’s cooperation with federal immigration authorities, may counteract these effects. After exploiting the temporal and geographic variation in the adoption of interior immigration enforcement and sanctuary policies, we can successfully identify the impact of sanctuary policies, which help boost the rate of VAWA self-petitions. Additionally, we provide suggestive evidence of the channel through which this impact is likely taking place—namely through victims’ increased willingness to report cases and leave their abusers. Understanding survivors’ responses to immigration policy is crucial given growing police mistrust and immigrants’ vulnerability to crime. PubDate: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbab007 Issue No:Vol. 22, No. 2 (2021)
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Authors:Di Iasio V; Miguelez E. Pages: 423 - 448 Abstract: AbstractThis study investigates whether high-skilled migration in a sample of OECD countries fosters technological diversification in the migrants’ countries of origin. We focus on migrant inventors and study their role as vectors of knowledge remittances. Further, we particularly analyze whether migrants spark related or unrelated diversification back home. To account for the uneven distribution of knowledge and migrants within the host countries, we break down the analysis at the metropolitan area level. Our results suggest that migrant inventors have a positive effect on the home countries’ technological diversification, particularly for developing countries and technologies with less related activities around—thus fostering unrelated diversification. PubDate: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbab044 Issue No:Vol. 22, No. 2 (2021)
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Authors:Wigger C. Pages: 449 - 476 Abstract: AbstractI analyze how high-skilled immigration affects native, immigrant and collaborative innovation, using an IV approach that exploits exogenous variation in push factors of migration across origin regions and over time. The overall impact of high-skilled immigration on innovation is positive and substantial. High-skilled immigrants from developed regions of the world and with a PhD contribute by innovating themselves, enhancing native-immigrant and international collaborations, and spurring native innovation. I show that the latter effect is likely driven by the access to immigrants’ origin specific knowledge. In contrast, while there is no evidence for a significant direct contribution of high-skilled immigrants from less developed regions and without a PhD to innovation, they contribute indirectly, by stimulating native innovation. PubDate: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbab033 Issue No:Vol. 22, No. 2 (2021)
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Authors:Diodato D; Morrison A, Petralia S. Pages: 477 - 498 Abstract: AbstractMore than 30 million people migrated to the USA between late-ninetieth and early-twentieth century, and thousands became inventors. Drawing on a novel dataset of immigrant inventors in the USA, we assess the city-level impact of immigrants’ patenting and their contribution to the technological specialization of the receiving US regions between 1870 and 1940. Our results show that native inventors benefited from the inventive activity of immigrants. In addition, we show that the knowledge transferred by immigrants gave rise to new and previously not exiting technological fields in the US regions where immigrants moved to. PubDate: Sun, 03 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbab032 Issue No:Vol. 22, No. 2 (2021)
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