The Economics of International Migrations
A Reading Group
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Meets Mondays 12.00-1.40 PM in The Economics department Main Conference Room Detailed Required readings: 1)
Introduction:
Overview, facts, policy issues and
ideas POWERPOINT PRESENTATION (
2)
The impact
of Migration on the Host Country: Labor markets · *Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. and Peri Giovanni (2006) “Rethinking the Effect of Immigration on Wages” NBER Working Paper # 12496. Power-point
Presentation by G. Peri ·
*Lewis,
Ethan (2005) "Immigration, Skill Mix, and the
Choice of Technique," Federal Reserve Bank of Power-Point presentation by G. Wright · *George L. Borjas (2001) "Does Immigration Grease the Wheels of the Labor Market?" Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2001, pp. 69-119. · *David Card (2007) “Immigration in Cities” CReAM discussion paper, September 2007. 3)
The impact
of Migration on the Host Country: Fiscal Costs ·
*Borjas, G. J., Hilton, L., 1996. Immigration and the Welfare State:
Immigrant Participation in Means-Tested Entitlement Programs. Quarterly Journal of Economics 111,
575-604. ·
*Smith, J. P., Edmonston, B. (Eds.),
1997. The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of
Immigration. 4)
The impact
of Migration on the Host Country: Prices, Rents and specialization ·
*Cortes
P. (2005) "The Effect of Low-Skilled
Immigration on U.S. Prices: Evidence from CPI data" Mimeo MIT,
November 2005. Presented by J.J. Kim ·
*Saul Lach, "Immigration
and Prices," Journal of Political Economy 115, no. 4
(2007): 548-87. Presented by T. Berge 5)
The impact
of Migrations on the sending country:
Brain Drain (or Brain Gain?) ·
*Beine,
Michel & Docquier, Frederic & Rapoport, Hillel (2001), “Brain Drain and Economic Growth: Theory and
Evidence”, Journal of Development
Economics, vol. 64(1),
pages 275-289. ·
*Stark,
Oded (2004), “Rethinking the Brain
Drain” World Development, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 15-22. Presented by Jeremy Moulton ·
*Schiff, Maurice (2005), “Brain Gain: Claims about Its Size and Impact on
Welfare and Growth Are Greatly Exaggerated” in Ozden, Caglar and
Schiff, Maurice (ed.) International Migration, Remittances and the Brain
Drain, · *Batista C., Lacuesta A. and Vicente P. (2007) “Brain Drain or Brain Gain? Micro Evidence from and African Success story” IZA Discussion paper # 3035, September 2007. Presented
by Douglas Campbell 6)
Migrations
in History: was the first global era (1870-1920) different? ·
*Hatton,
Timothy J. and Jeffrey G. Williamson, (2005) "A Dual Policy Paradox: Why Have Trade and
Immigration Policies Always Differed in Labor-Scarce Economies?"
NBER Working Paper No. 11866. ·
*T.J.
Hatton, J. Williamson “What
determines Immigration Impact? Comparing two Global centuries” NBER
working Paper12414, June 2006 ·
*J.G.
Williamson “Poverty Traps, Distance
and Diversity: The migration Connection” NBER working Paper 12549 Presented by Lety A. Abad 7)
The
political Economic of immigration laws and Illegal Immigration ·
*Mayda,
Anna Maria (2006) "Who is Against
Immigration? A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes toward
Immigrants", Review of Economics and Statistics. Presented by Dan Liu ·
*Hanson
G., Scheve and M. Slaughter (2005) “Public Finance and Individual
preferences over Globalization strategies” NBER working paper 11028 Presented by ·
*Christian Dustmann & Ian Preston, 2004. "Racial
and Economic Factors in Attitudes to Immigration," CReAM
Discussion Paper Series 0104, Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration
(CReAM), Department of Economics, ·
1)
Macro-models of international migration in a
Global perspective · *P. Klein and G. Ventura (2006) “TFP Differences and the Aggregate Effects of labor Mobility in the Long Run” The BE Journal in Macroeconomics, Vol. 7, Issue 1, 2007 Presented by Marco Hernandez-Vega ·
*Benhabib
J. and B. Jovanovic (2007) “Optimal
Migration: A world Perspective” NBER Working Paper # 12871 Presented by |
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