Immigration, Growth, and Unemployment: Panel VAR Evidence from OECD Countries

Ekrame Boubtane, Dramane Coulibaly and Christophe Rault

Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) from HAL

Abstract: This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ panel vector autoregression (VAR) techniques for a large annual data set on 22 OECD countries over the period 1987–2009. The VAR approach addresses the endogeneity problem by allowing for endogenous interactions between the variables in the system. Our results provide evidence of migration contribution to host economic prosperity (positive impact on GDP per capita and negative impact on aggregate unemployment, native- and foreign-born unemployment rates). We also find that migration is influenced by host economic conditions (migration responds positively to host GDP per capita and negatively to host total unemployment rate).

Keywords: panel vector autoregression; immigration; unemployment; growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-12
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (7)

Published in LABOUR, 2013, 27 (4), pp.399-420. ⟨10.1111/labr.12017⟩

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
Journal Article: Immigration, Growth, and Unemployment: Panel VAR Evidence from OECD Countries (2013)
Working Paper: Immigration, growth and unemployment: Panel VAR evidence from OECD countries (2013)
Working Paper: Immigration, Growth and Unemployment: Panel VAR Evidence from OECD Countries (2013)
Working Paper: Immigration, growth and unemployment: Panel VAR evidence from OECD countries (2013)
Working Paper: Immigration, growth and unemployment: Panel VAR evidence from OECD countries (2013)
Working Paper: Immigration, growth and unemployment: Panel VAR evidence from OECD countries (2013)
Working Paper: Immigration, Growth, and Unemployment: Panel VAR Evidence from OECD Countries (2013)
Working Paper: Immigration, growth and unemployment: Panel VAR evidence from OECD countries (2013)
Working Paper: Immigration, growth and unemployment: Panel VAR evidence from OECD countries (2013)
Working Paper: Immigration, Growth and Unemployment: Panel VAR Evidence from OECD Countries (2012)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:cesptp:halshs-01297097

DOI: 10.1111/labr.12017

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().