Migration and labour markets in OECD countries: a panel cointegration approach

Immigration, Growth, and Unemployment: Panel VAR Evidence from OECD Countries

“…Our result that immigration promotes economic growth bears out the study by Ortega and Peri (2013a), which shows that immigration has a growth‐enhancing impact that operates through increased diversity in productive skills that rises the rate of innovation. We also confirm the findings from Damette and Fromentin (), which show that immigration is conditioned by the levels of unemployment and wages, whereas migration has no adverse effect on unemployment in OECD countries. As increase in wages can reflect high GDP per capita growth or low unemployment rate, our results also partially corroborate the findings by Barcellos () who shows that (employing a panel VAR on the US states) immigration does not affect wages whereas wages do impact immigration.…”

“…In other words, the VAR approach takes into account the fact that migration can have an impact on the economy of a host country; at the same time, migration can be influenced by host country economic conditions. Our study is very related to a recent work by Damette and Fromentin (2013), which examines the interaction between immigration and host country labour market (wages and unemployment) for 14 OECD countries using panel methodology. Our study is also close to the work by Barcellos (2010) that employs a panel VAR methodology on the US states to examine the interaction between immigration and wages.…”

The impact of Syrian refugees on the labor market in neighboring countries: empirical evidence from Jordan

“…In other words, the restrictions are imposed only on the dynamic relationships between a pair of variables that could be hidden in the standard econometrics models. In our paper, the application of the VAR model is in line with the literature examining the impact of immigration on macroeconomic indicators and economic conditions in the host country (see, for example, the recent work of Boubtane et al, 2013aBoubtane et al, , 2013bDamette and Fromentine, 2013).…”

The relationship between immigration and unemployment: Panel data evidence from Canada

“…To the best knowledge of this author, only few studies in the immigration literature have utilized panel data methods particularly in the context of the relationship between immigration and labor market (Beine et al, 2014;Boubtane et al, 2013;Brücker et al, 2011;Damette and Fromentin, 2013;Ghatak and Moore, 2007;Gross and Schmitt, 2012). In Canadian context, Beine et al (2014) and Gross and Schmitt (2012) utilized panel data to examine the labor market impact of immigration.…”