Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/67276 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6966
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ panel VAR techniques to use a large annual dataset on 22 OECD countries over the period 1987-2009. The VAR approach allows to addresses the endogeneity problem by allowing the endogenous interaction 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).
Subjects: 
immigration
growth
unemployment
panel VAR
JEL: 
E20
F22
J61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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