A global view of cross-border migration

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• dc.contributor.author di Giovanni, Julianca
• dc.contributor.author Levchenko, Andrei A.ca
• dc.contributor.author Ortega, Francescca
• dc.contributor.other Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
• dc.date.accessioned 2017-07-26T10:50:07Z
• dc.date.available 2017-07-26T10:50:07Z
• dc.date.issued 2014-03-01
• dc.date.modified 2017-07-23T02:16:06Z
• dc.description.abstract This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of observed levels of migration using a quantitative multi-sector model of the world economy calibrated to aggregate and firm-level data. Our framework features cross-country labor productivity differences, international trade, remittances, and a heterogeneous workforce. We compare welfare under the observed levels of migration to a no-migration counterfactual. In the long run, natives in countries that received a lot of migration -such as Canada or Australia- are better o due to greater product variety available in consumption and as intermediate inputs. In the short run the impact of migration on average welfare in these countries is close to zero, while the skilled and unskilled natives tend to experience welfare changes of opposite signs. The remaining natives in countries with large emigration flows -such as Jamaica or El Salvador- are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The welfare impact of observed levels of migration is substantial, at about 5 to 10% for the main receiving countries and about 10% in countries with large incoming remittances. Our results are robust to accounting for imperfect transferability of skills, selection into migration, and imperfect substitution between natives and immigrants.
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• dc.identifier https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=1414
• dc.identifier.citation Journal of the European Economic Association, 13 (1), 168-202, 2015
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/22196
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.relation.ispartofseries Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 1414
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• dc.subject.keyword migration
• dc.subject.keyword remittances
• dc.subject.keyword international trade
• dc.subject.keyword welfare
• dc.subject.keyword Macroeconomics and International Economics
• dc.title A global view of cross-border migrationca
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper