The immigration–unemployment nexus: do education and Protestantism matter?

Jakob Madsen and Stojanka Andric

Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, vol. 69, issue 1, 165-188

Abstract: Using annual data from 1850 to 2010 for Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, and the USA, this paper examines the impact of immigration and the immigrants’ educational and cultural background on unemployment. Instruments for 27 emigrating countries are used to deal with the feedback effects from unemployment to immigration. The results show that educated immigrants, in particular, and immigrants from Protestant countries significantly reduce unemployment, while poorly educated and non-Protestant immigrants enhance unemployment.

JEL-codes: E23 F22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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