User menu

Accès à distance ? S'identifier sur le proxy UCLouvain

The Labour Market Effects of Immigration and Emigration in OECD Countries

Primary tabs

Docquier, Frédéric [UCL]

In this study, we quantify the labour market effects of migration flows in OECD countries during the 1990s based on a new global database on the bilateral stock of migrants, by education level. We simulate various outcomes using an aggregate model of labour markets, parameterised by a range of estimates from the literature. We find that immigration had a positive effect on the wages of less educated natives and it increased or left unchanged the average native wages. Emigration, instead, had a negative effect on the wages of less educated native workers and increased inequality within countries.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2014
Language Anglais
Journal information "The Economic Journal" - Vol. 124, no.579, p. 1106-1145 (September 2014)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. ((United Kingdom) Chichester)
issn 0013-0133
e-issn 1468-0297
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SSH/LIDAM/IRES - Institut de recherches économiques et sociales
Links
  1. Acemoglu, NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2000, volume 15 (2001)
  2. Acemoglu D., Zilibotti F., Productivity Differences, 10.1162/00335530151144104
  3. Angrist, American Economic Review, 85, 1065 (1995)
  4. Azariadis Costas, Drazen Allan, Threshold Externalities in Economic Development, 10.2307/2937797
  5. Barro , R.J. Lee , J.W. 2010 ‘A new data set of educational attainment in the world, 1950-2010’
  6. Barro, Economic Growth (2003)
  7. Beine Michel, Docquier Frédéric, Özden Çağlar, Diasporas, 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2009.11.004
  8. Benhabib, Handbook of Economic Growth, 935 (2005)
  9. Borjas G. J., The Labor Demand Curve is Downward Sloping: Reexamining the Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market, 10.1162/003355303322552810
  10. Borjas George J., Grogger Jeffrey, Hanson Gordon H., COMMENT: ON ESTIMATING ELASTICITIES OF SUBSTITION, 10.1111/j.1542-4774.2011.01055.x
  11. Card David, Immigrant Inflows, Native Outflows, and the Local Labor Market Impacts of Higher Immigration, 10.1086/209979
  12. Card David, Immigration and Inequality, 10.1257/aer.99.2.1
  13. Card D., Lemieux T., Can Falling Supply Explain the Rising Return to College for Younger Men? A Cohort-Based Analysis, 10.1162/00335530151144140
  14. Caselli Francesco, Coleman Wilbur John, The World Technology Frontier, 10.1257/aer.96.3.499
  15. Ciccone Antonio, Peri Giovanni, Long-Run Substitutability Between More and Less Educated Workers: Evidence from U.S. States, 1950–1990, 10.1162/003465305775098233
  16. CICCONE ANTONIO, PERI GIOVANNI, Identifying Human-Capital Externalities: Theory with Applications, 10.1111/j.1467-937x.2006.00380.x
  17. Cohen Daniel, Soto Marcelo, Growth and human capital: good data, good results, 10.1007/s10887-007-9011-5
  18. Cohen-Goldner Sarit, Paserman M. Daniele, The dynamic impact of immigration on natives' labor market outcomes: Evidence from Israel, 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2011.05.002
  19. D’Amuri Francesco, Ottaviano Gianmarco I.P., Peri Giovanni, The labor market impact of immigration in Western Germany in the 1990s, 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2009.10.002
  20. de la Fuente Angel, Doménech Rafael, Human Capital in Growth Regressions: How Much Difference Does Data Quality Make?, 10.1162/jeea.2006.4.1.1
  21. Docquier, International Migration, Remittances and Development (2006)
  22. Docquier Frédéric, Lowell B. Lindsay, Marfouk Abdeslam, A Gendered Assessment of Highly Skilled Emigration, 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2009.00277.x
  23. Docquier , F. Özden , Ç. Peri , G. 2010 ‘The wage effects of immigration and emigration’
  24. Elsner , B. 2011 ‘Emigration and wages: the EU enlargement experiment’
  25. European Union 2010 ‘Clandestino project 2007-2009’ http://clandestino.eliamep.gr/project-results/
  26. Evers Michiel, De Mooij Ruud, Van Vuuren Daniel, The Wage Elasticity of Labour Supply: A Synthesis of Empirical Estimates, 10.1007/s10645-007-9080-z
  27. Fallon P. R., Layard P. R. G., Capital-Skill Complementarity, Income Distribution, and Output Accounting, 10.1086/260323
  28. Flood Lennart, MaCurdy Thomas, Work disincentive effects of taxes: An empirical analysis of Swedish men, 10.1016/0167-2231(92)90009-8
  29. Freeman , R.B. 2006 ‘People flows in globalization’
  30. Friedberg R. M., The Impact of Mass Migration on the Israeli Labor Market, 10.1162/003355301753265606
  31. Goldin, The Race Between Education and Technology (2008)
  32. Grogger Jeffrey, Hanson Gordon H., Income maximization and the selection and sorting of international migrants, 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2010.06.003
  33. Hall R. E., Jones C. I., Why do Some Countries Produce So Much More Output Per Worker than Others?, 10.1162/003355399555954
  34. Hendricks , L. 2004 ‘A database of Mincerian earnings regressions’ http://www.lhendricks.org/Mincer.htm
  35. Iranzo Susana, Peri Giovanni, Schooling Externalities, Technology, and Productivity: Theory and Evidence from U.S. States, 10.1162/rest.91.2.420
  36. Johnson George E., The Demand for Labor by Educational Category, 10.2307/1056129
  37. Katz L. F., Murphy K. M., Changes in Relative Wages, 1963-1987: Supply and Demand Factors, 10.2307/2118323
  38. Kerr , S.P. Kerr , W. 2009 ‘Economic impact of immigration: a survey’
  39. Krusell Per, Ohanian Lee E., Rios-Rull Jose-Victor, Violante Giovanni L., Capital-skill Complementarity and Inequality: A Macroeconomic Analysis, 10.1111/1468-0262.00150
  40. Lucas Robert E., On the mechanics of economic development, 10.1016/0304-3932(88)90168-7
  41. MaCurdy Thomas, Green David, Paarsch Harry, Assessing Empirical Approaches for Analyzing Taxes and Labor Supply, 10.2307/145990
  42. Manacorda Marco, Manning Alan, Wadsworth Jonathan, THE IMPACT OF IMMIGRATION ON THE STRUCTURE OF WAGES: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM BRITAIN, 10.1111/j.1542-4774.2011.01049.x
  43. Mattoo Aaditya, Neagu Ileana Cristina, Özden Çağlar, Brain waste? Educated immigrants in the US labor market, 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2007.05.001
  44. Mayda Anna Maria, International migration: a panel data analysis of the determinants of bilateral flows, 10.1007/s00148-009-0251-x
  45. Mishra Prachi, Emigration and wages in source countries: Evidence from Mexico, 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2005.09.002
  46. Moretti Enrico, Estimating the social return to higher education: evidence from longitudinal and repeated cross-sectional data, 10.1016/j.jeconom.2003.10.015
  47. Moretti Enrico, Workers' Education, Spillovers, and Productivity: Evidence from Plant-Level Production Functions, 10.1257/0002828041464623
  48. Murphy, General Purpose Technology and Economic Growth, 283 (1998)
  49. OECD 2010 ‘Database on immigrants in OECD and non-OECD countries’ http://www.oecd.org/document/33/0,3746,en_2649_37415_46561249_1_1_1_37415,00.html
  50. , Society at a Glance 2011, ISBN:9789264098527, 10.1787/soc_glance-2011-en
  51. Ottaviano Gianmarco I. P., Peri Giovanni, RETHINKING THE EFFECT OF IMMIGRATION ON WAGES, 10.1111/j.1542-4774.2011.01052.x
  52. Ozden, The International Migration of Women, 153 (2008)
  53. Ozden C., Parsons C. R., Schiff M., Walmsley T. L., Where on Earth is Everybody? The Evolution of Global Bilateral Migration 1960-2000, 10.1093/wber/lhr024
  54. Papademetriou, Migration and the Great Recession. The Transatlantic Experience (2011)
  55. Peri Giovanni, Rethinking the area approach: Immigrants and the labor market in California, 10.1016/j.jinteco.2011.02.002
  56. Ramsey , F. 1928 A mathematical theory of saving 38 152 543 59
  57. Romiti , A. 2012 ‘Immigrants-native complementarieties in production: evidence from Italy’
  58. Solow Robert M., A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth, 10.2307/1884513
  59. van Soest Arthur, Woittiez Isolde, Kapteyn Arie, Labor Supply, Income Taxes, and Hours Restrictions in the Netherlands, 10.2307/145992
  60. Vandenbussche Jérôme, Aghion Philippe, Meghir Costas, Growth, distance to frontier and composition of human capital, 10.1007/s10887-006-9002-y
  61. Dustmann C., Frattini T., Preston I. P., The Effect of Immigration along the Distribution of Wages, 10.1093/restud/rds019
  62. Docquier , F. Özden , Ç. Parsons , C.R. Artuc , E. 2012 ‘A global assessment of human capital mobility: the role of non-OECD destinations’, Discussion Paper 2012-022, IRES. http://sites.uclouvain.be/econ/DP/IRES/2012022.pdf
Bibliographic reference Docquier, Frédéric. The Labour Market Effects of Immigration and Emigration in OECD Countries. In: The Economic Journal, Vol. 124, no.579, p. 1106-1145 (September 2014)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/171138