Migration, Labor Tasks and Production Structure in Europe

Stefania Borelli () and Giuseppe De Arcangelis
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Stefania Borelli: Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali ed Economiche, Sapienza-Università di Roma

No 4/16, Working Papers from Sapienza University of Rome, DISS

Abstract: This paper assesses the effect of the immigration on the production structure in a selection of European countries in 2001-2009 with a task-based approach. The infl ow of immigrants represents an increase in the relative supply of manual-physical (or simple) tasks, hence favoring simple-task intensive sectors. We use a new OECD dataset, PIAAC, to calculate the index of simple-task intensity at the country-industry level. The analysis confirms that the increase in migration stocks caused a positive impact on the value added of sectors that use more intensively simple tasks. These effects are more intense when considering countries as Italy and Spain characterized by a recent, rapid and intense in flow of migrants. Endogeneity issues are discussed and instruments based on a gravity approach are used in estimation.

Keywords: Rybczynski Effect; International Migration; PIAAC; Gravity Equation. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C25 F22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-05
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