Migration and Production Structure in Europe with a Labor Task Approach

Stefania Borelli (), Giuseppe De Arcangelis and Majlinda Joxhe
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Stefania Borelli: Department of Social Sciences and Economics, Sapienza University of Rome (IT).

No 6/19, Working Papers from Sapienza University of Rome, DISS

Abstract: We assess the effect of migration on the production structure in a selection of European countries for the pre-Great Recession period 2001-2009. We propose a labor-task approach where the infl ow of migrants raises the relative supply of manual-physical (or simple) tasks and therefore favors simple-task intensive sectors. We use the US O*NET database in conjunction with European labor data to calculate the index of simple-task intensity at the industry and country level. The analysis confirms that a rise in employment migration rates has a generalized positive impact, but that value added increases significantly more in sectors that use more intensively simple tasks. A traditional shift-share instrument is used to overcome possible endogeneity problems.

Keywords: International Migration; Labor Tasks; ONET; Rybczynski Effect. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C25 F22 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-06
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