Does Immigration Boost Per Capita Income?

Gabriel Felbermayr, Sanne Hiller (sanh@asb.dk) and Davide Sala (dsala@asb.dk)
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Davide Sala: https://auwi.uni-hohenheim.de/

No 300/2008, Diskussionspapiere aus dem Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Hohenheim from Department of Economics, University of Hohenheim, Germany

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 financial openness, we establish a robust and non-negative causal effect 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)
Pages: 9 pages
Date: 2008
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