Does Immigration Boost Per Capita Income?

Gabriel J Felbermayr (), Sanne Hiller () and Davide Sala

No 08-23, Working Papers from University of Aarhus, Aarhus School of Business, Department of Economics

Abstract: Using a cross-section of countries, we adapt Frankel and Romer's (1999) IV strategy to international labor mobility. Controlling for institutional quality, trade, and nancial openness, we establish a robust and non-negative causal eect of immigration on real percapita income.

Keywords: Gravity model; International trade; International migration; Cross-country income regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F12 F22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2008-10-01

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