Shift-Share Instruments and the Impact of Immigration

Jaeger, David A.; Ruist, Joakim; Stuhler, Jan

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3117311

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“…In general, studies related to immigration's impact usually rely on spatial variation in immigrant inflows for identification (Jaeger et al, 2018). In this research, following Saiz (2007), we believe that the overall number of international students in China stems from political and administrative decisions.…”

Section: Shift-share Approachmentioning

confidence: 83%

International Student Inflow and City Innovation: Evidence from China

2023

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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Research on immigration and innovation points out that immigrants can directly enhance the innovation of the host country by promoting cultural diversity. This paper analyzes the theoretical mechanism of international student inflow on city innovation from the perspective of cultural diversity and identifies the causal effect by constructing the instrumental variable of shift‐share IV. The results show that the international student inflow has a significant positive effect on city innovation. This effect is non‐linear and the threshold regression model identified the two threshold values. Further considering the spatial spillover effect between cities, we find that the innovation capacity and efficiency of cities are affected by local‐related factors and the spillover effects of neighboring cities. The direct effect of international talent is positive, while its spillover effect is negative, which indicates a competitive effect between cities in attracting international students.

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Section: Shift-share Approachmentioning

confidence: 83%

International Student Inflow and City Innovation: Evidence from China

2023

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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“…Conceptually this is an argument the endogenous determination of the size of migration depending on destination country characteristics. Many of the macro-level analyses then rely on 'shift-share,' or 'Bartik' instruments, to predict the exogenous share of migration with prior migrant networks at destination, despite their limits (Jaeger et al, 2018;Goldsmith-Pinkham et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

Migration and Cultural Change

2022

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“…In this regard, our methodology is in line with Peri et al (2015) and Han et al (2022). Additionally, because we use the expansion of the F-4 visa program that significantly changes the composition of immigrants in South Korea, it is less likely that our results are driven by any past immigrant inflows (Jaeger et al, 2018).…”

Section: Instrumental Variablementioning

confidence: 97%

Task specialization and low‐skilled immigration in a highly educated country: Evidence from Korea

Kim

Lee

2023

Southern Economic Journal

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While imperfect substitutability between native and immigrant workers is an important mechanism in estimating the wage effects of immigration, its empirical literature is concentrated on the context of only a few countries. Using occupation task‐intensity data from a unique Korean data set, we demonstrate that relatively skilled native Korean workers respond to increased low‐skilled immigration by pursuing jobs more intensive in communication and cognitive tasks. This native response is mainly pronounced in knowledge‐intensive service sectors and leads to an improvement in average wages in these sectors. Our results support the general assumption that the labor market impact of immigration critically depends on whether native and immigrant workers are substitutes or complements in production.

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Shift-Share Instruments and the Impact of Immigration

Cited by 17 publications

References 36 publications

International Student Inflow and City Innovation: Evidence from China

International Student Inflow and City Innovation: Evidence from China

Migration and Cultural Change

Task specialization and low‐skilled immigration in a highly educated country: Evidence from Korea

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