Does Immigration Boost Per Capita Income?

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 nancial openness, we establish a robust and non-negative causal eect of immigration on real percapita income.

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Year of publication:	2008-10-01
Authors:	Felbermayr, Gabriel J. ; Hiller, Sanne ; Sala, Davide
Institutions:	Nationalökonomisk Institut, Institut for Økonomi
Subject:	Gravity model \| International trade \| International migration \| Cross-country income regression

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series Working Papers Number 08-23 21 pages
Classification:	F12 - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies ; F22 - International Migration
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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