Migration, labor tasks and production structure

Giuseppe De Arcangelis, Edoardo Di Porto and Gianluca Santoni

Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2015, vol. 53, issue C, 156-169

Abstract: We assess the effect of migrants’ stock on the production structure of the Italian provinces (NUTS3) in 1995–2006. Although the investigated time span is very short, the effect is small but statistically significant: a doubling in the ratio of foreign-born residents to the province population induces a significant increase in manufactures’ value added with respect to services’ value added between 12 and 21 per cent. These effects are more intense when considering an increase in foreign-born populations drawn from countries more different to Italy (in terms of GDP per capita and educational attainment).

Keywords: Rybczynski effect; International migration; Province labor markets; Specific factor model; Productive tasks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C25 F22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2015.06.001

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