Immigration and international prices: An initial assessment

Marios Zachariadis

Economics Letters, 2011, vol. 110, issue 2, 83-85

Abstract: Using prices from a number of cities across the world during 1990-2006, this paper shows that there exists a negative impact of immigration on prices. The estimated absolute elasticity of prices with respect to immigration is around 14% across specifications.

Keywords: Immigration; Prices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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