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George J. Borjas. “Intellectual Mobility: Native Responses to Supply Shocks in the Space of Ideas”

inside — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:49:44 +0000

Joint INSIDE (IAE/MOVE) – UPF Seminar

Date: November 9, 2012, 15:00 h

Venue: Casa Convalescència

George J. Borjas (Harvard Kennedy School)

Paper: “Intellectual Mobility: Native Responses to Supply Shocks in the Space of Ideas”

Please confirm your attendance by either filling out the on-line form here or sending an e-mail to insideseminar9n@movebarcelona.eu

Sponsors: INSIDE, IAE, MOVE, UPF

Does International Migration Increase Child Labor?

inside — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:56:27 +0000

Global international migration may influence child labor through a labor market effect. We empirically investigate this issue by using an original cross-country survey dataset, which combines information on international emigration flows with detailed individual-level data on child labor at age 5-15 in a wide range of developing countries. By using variation in the emigration supply shocks across labor market units defined on the basis of both geography and skill, we estimate a set of child labor equations where the variable of interest is the interactive effect between parental skill and country-level emigration shocks. We measure the latter through different indicators including a direct measure of the relative skill composition of emigrants relative to the resident population in the country of origin. Overall, after controlling for a large set of individual-level characteristics, remittances, and country fixed effects, our findings are consistent with predictions and show that international out-migration may significantly reduce child labor in disadvantaged households through changes in the local labor market.

JEL Keywords: International Migration, Child Labor, Factor Mobility, Cross-country Survey Data
JEL Classifications: F22, F1, J61

The Impact of Immigration on the Educational Attainment of Natives

inside — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:59:12 +0000

More about Jennifer Hunt

July 3 2012. 12.00h at IAE (Institute of Economic Analysis)

Xin Meng (Australian National University)

inside — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:41:31 +0000

The little emperors: Behavioural impact of China’s one-child policy

More information about Xin Meng.

INSIDE-MOVE, NORFACE, CReAM: VI Workshop on Migration and Labor Economics

inside — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:17:01 +0000

INSIDE-MOVE, NORFACE, CReAM: VI Workshop on Migration and Labor Economics

Co-organised by the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), by the research group “Migration: Integration, Impact and Interaction” of the NORFACE Research Programme on Migration and by INSIDE (Insights on Immigration and Development), the Sixth Workshop on Migration and Labor Economics took place October 18-19, 2012 in Barcelona at the Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC).

INSIDE is a joint initiative of IAE-CSIC (Institute for Economic Analysis, Spanish National Research Council), member of the Barcelona GSE, and MOVE (Markets, Organizations and Votes in Economics). CReAM is an independent and interdisciplinary research centre located in the Department of Economics at University College London, focusing on the causes, patterns and consequences of international population mobility and movements. The NORFACE research programme on migration comprises 12 research projects and is jointly funded by the national research councils and the European Commission.

Pictures from the workshop are available here

The program and the papers are available here

The program in PDF is available here.

Information on how to reach the workshop venue, the Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC) are provided here:

If you would like to attend, please send an email to Mr Eliseo Palomar (eliseo.palomar@iae.csic.es) as soon as possible and no later than Friday, October 12th.

Organizing committee:

Lidia Farrè (IAE-CSIC, INSIDE)

Francesco Fasani (IAE-CSIC, INSIDE)

Ada Ferrer-Carbonell (IAE-CSIC, INSIDE)

Eliseo Palomar (IAE-CSIC)

Uta Schoenberg (UCL, CReAM)

Sixth INSIDE (IAE-MOVE) Workshop

inside — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:15:51 +0000

The Sixth INSIDE Workshop (Insights on Immigration and Development) will take place October 18-19, 2012 in Barcelona at the Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC).

INSIDE is a joint initiative of IAE-CSIC (Institute for Economic Analysis, Spanish National Research Council), member of the Barcelona GSE, and MOVE (Markets, Organizations and Votes in Economics).

The 2012 meeting will be co-organized with the team members of the project “Migration: Integration, Impact and Interaction” of the NORFACE Research Programme on Migration.

Organizing committee:
Marco Alfano (UCL, CReAM)
Lidia Farrè (IAE-CSIC, INSIDE)
Francesco Fasani (IAE-CSIC, INSIDE)
Ada Ferrer-Carbonell (IAE-CSIC, INSIDE)
Uta Schoenberg (UCL, CReAM)

Professor Hunt, Visiting Fellow

inside — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:28:03 +0000

A Short Visiting Fellowship has been awarded to Jennifer Hunt, who will join us for the month of July 2012. Professor Hunt received her PhD in economics from Harvard University and is currently a full professor at Rutgers University. Her fields of interest include labor economics, migration, innovation, and transition economics. She has published, among others, in the Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Quarterly Journal of Economics.

You can find further details on her webpage:

http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jah357/Hunt/Home.html

Media Exposure and Internal Migration – Evidence from Indonesia

inside — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:21:08 +0000

This paper investigates the impact of television on internal migration in Indonesia. We exploit the differential introduction of private television throughout the country and the variation in signal reception due to topography to estimate the causal effect of media exposure. Our estimates reveal important long and short run effects. An increase of one standard deviation in the number of private TV channels received in the area of residence reduces future inter-provincial migration by 1.7-2.7 percentage points, and all migration (inter and intra-provincial) by 4-7.4 percentage points. Short run effects are slightly smaller, but still sizeable and statistically significant. We also show that respondents less exposed to private TV are more likely to consider themselves among the poorest groups of the society. As we discuss in a stylized model of migration choice under imperfect information, these findings are consistent with Indonesia citizens over-estimating the net gains from internal migration.

JEL: J61, L82, O15
Keywords: Information; Migration decisions; Television

Labor Migration and Social Networks Participation: Evidence from Southern Mozambique

admin — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 06:11:33 +0000

This paper investigates how social networks in poor developing settings are affected if people migrate. Using a unique household survey from two southern regions in Mozambique, we test the role of labor mobility in shaping participation in groups and interhousehold cooperation by migrant-sending households in village economies at origin. We find that households with successful migrants (i.e. those receiving either remittances or return migration) engage more in community-based social networks. Our findings are robust to alternative definitions of social interaction and to endogeneity concerns suggesting that stable migration ties and higher income stability through remittances may decrease participation constraints and increase household commitment in cooperative arrangements in migrant-sending communities.

JEL Keywords: International Migration, Social Capital, Networks, Group Participation, Mozambique.
JEL Classifications: O17, O15, O12

Fifth INSIDE Workshop

admin — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:34:32 +0000

Program

The Fifth INSIDE Workshop (Insights on Immigration and Development) will take place June 27-28, 2011 in Barcelona at the Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC).

INSIDE is a joint initiative of IAE-CSIC (Institute for Economic Analysis, Spanish National Research Council), member of the Barcelona GSE, and MOVE (Markets, Organizations and Votes in Economics).

The 2011 meeting will be in conjunction with the Princeton Global Network on Child Migration (Princeton University) from which INSIDE became part this year. Therefore, the organizing committee is particularly interested in papers at the crossroad of child wellbeing and migration:

- First, how does migration influence wellbeing of children and youth –i.e. selection regimes that produce migratory flows of children and youth to clarify whether migration improves or undermines wellbeing of young people, depending on its character, timing, duration, and auspices.

- Second, how migrant children compare with nonimmigrant children in their host communities on various dimensions of physical, social, and economic wellbeing)

The three sub-themes that the Global network project encompasses are:

1. Social and Economic Consequences of Age at Migration;

2. Institutions of the Welfare State and Child Wellbeing (related to policies and practices that affect children’s participation in childcare, health care and primary education).

3. Migrant Fertility and Living Arrangements (household formation, intra-household specialization and housing conditions

We welcome paper submissions until March 15, 2011 at info@inside.org.es.

Organizing committee:
Marta Tienda
Sara McLanahan
Alicia Adsera
Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell