Arbeitspapier
Immigration, growth and unemployment: Panel VAR evidence from OECD countries
This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ panel VAR techniques to use a large annual dataset on 22 OECD countries over the period 1987-2009. The VAR approach allows to addresses the endogeneity problem by allowing the endogenous interaction between the variables in the system. Our results provide evidence of migration contribution to host economic prosperity (positive impact on GDP per capita and negative impact on aggregate unemployment, native- and foreign-born unemployment rates). We also find that migration is influenced by host economic conditions (migration responds positively to host GDP per capita and negatively to host total unemployment rate).
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6966
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy: General (includes Measurement and Data)
International Migration
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
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immigration
growth
unemployment
panel VAR
Einwanderung
Arbeitslosigkeit
Wirtschaftswachstum
VAR-Modell
Schätzung
OECD-Staaten
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Boubtane, Ekrame
Coulibaly, Dramane
Rault, Christophe
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2012
- Handle
- Last update
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10.02.42026, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Boubtane, Ekrame
- Coulibaly, Dramane
- Rault, Christophe
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2012