Discussion Paper
No. 2011-45 | November 02, 2011
Benedikt Heid and Mario Larch
Migration, Trade and Unemployment
(Published in Responding to the Labour Market Challenges of Globalisation)

Abstract

A source of anxiety of policy makers and the public in general is the detrimental impact of globalization and immigration on unemployment. The transitory restrictions for worker migration after the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007 exemplify the supposed negative effect of immigration on labor markets. This paper aims to identify the effects of immigration alongside trade on unemployment taking into account the substitutability of worker and goods flows. We use data from 24 OECD countries over the period from 1997 to 2007 and employ instrumental variables fixed effects and dynamic panel estimators in order to account for unobserved heterogeneity as well as the potential endogeneity of migration flows and the high persistence of unemployment. We find a significant negative effect of immigration on unemployment on average.Paper submitted to the special issue Responding to the Labour Market Challenges of Globalisation

JEL Classification:

C23, C26, F15, F16, F22

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[Please cite the corresponding journal article] Benedikt Heid and Mario Larch (2011). Migration, Trade and Unemployment. Economics Discussion Papers, No 2011-45, Kiel Institute for the World Economy. http://www.economics-ejournal.org/economics/discussionpapers/2011-45


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December 12, 2011 - 10:12
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January 18, 2012 - 10:42
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