The economic impact of migration: productivity analysis for Spain and the UK

Kangasniemi, Mari; Mas, Matilde; Robinson, Catherine; Serrano, Lorenzo

doi:10.1007/s11123-012-0280-4

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“…This finding is broadly in line with general evidence on the positive contribution of migrant labour to productivity in the UK (Kangasniemi 2009), andLi andPrescott's (2010) findings specifically for tourism in Canada. As discussed in the literature review, the positive association between migrant employment and hotel-wide financial performance may be due to their greater human capital, lower costs (see Table 2) or work attitudes (Blanchflower et al 2007;Dustman and Weiss 2008).…”

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confidence: 90%

“…Kangasniemi et al (2009), using growth accounting models, estimate that, in the UK, 1996-2005, the employment of migrants generally contributed 0.29% growth, but this was substantially higher in hotels and restaurants (0.73%). Using a production function approach, the use of migrant labour in Spain was associated with lower productivity, while in the UK there was a positive but insignificant association (Kangasniemi et al 2009). …”

Section: International Migrant Workersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Several forms of flexible working can be utilised with the aim of enhancing performance (Lockwood and Guerrier 1989;Kelliher 1989), but with contradictory evidence as to whether these have positive or negative impacts on productivity (Michie and Sheehan 2005). Another labour market feature is increasing migrant employment in the hospitality sector in the UK and most other developed economies (Markova et al 2013), although the contribution of migrant workers to labour productivity is contested (Huber et al 2010) and surprisingly underresearched at the micro as opposed to the macro level (Kangasniemi et al 2009) largely due to data constraints. There are very few studies at the establishment (hotel) level, and even fewer at the departmental (rooms versus food and beverage) level.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Performance, labour flexibility and migrant workers in hotels: An establishment and departmental level analysis

Yaduma

Williams

Lockwood

et al. 2015

International Journal of Hospitality Management

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Section: International Migrant Workersmentioning

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Performance, labour flexibility and migrant workers in hotels: An establishment and departmental level analysis

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Williams

Lockwood

et al. 2015

International Journal of Hospitality Management

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“…2 Most of the papers have focused on the labour market impacts (Bentolila et al, 2008;Carrasco et al, 2008;González & Ortega, 2010;Amuedo-Dorantes & de la Rica, 2011;Farré et al, 2011;Amuedo-Dorantes & Rica, 2013), but a number of contributions have studied other aspects like the effect of immigration on the output mix (Requena et al, 2009), trade (Peri & Requena, 2010), productivity (Kangasniemi et al, 2012), local public spending (Jofre-Monseny et al, 2016), school choices (Farré et al, 2015) or crime (Alonso-Borrego et al, 2012). See De la Rica et al (2014) for a recent revision of this literature.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Decomposing the Impact of Immigration on House Prices

Sanchis-Guarner

2017

SSRN Journal

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An inflow of immigrants into a region impacts house prices in three ways. For a fixed level of local population, housing demand rises due to the increase in foreign-born population. In addition, immigrants can influence native location decisions and induce additional shifts in demand. Finally, changes in housing supply conditions can in turn affect prices. Existing reduced form estimates of the effect of immigration on house prices capture the sum of all these effects. In this paper, I propose a methodology to identify the different channels driving the total effect. I show that, conditional on supply, total changes in housing demand can be decomposed into the sum of direct immigrant demand and indirect demand changes from relocated population. The size and sign of the indirect demand effect depends on the impact of immigration on native mobility. I use Spanish data during the period 2001-2012 to estimate the different elements of the decomposition, applying an instrumental variables strategy to obtain consistent coefficients. The results show that overlooking the impact of immigration on native location induces a sizeable difference between the total and the immigrant demand effects, affecting the interpretation of the estimates.

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“…2 Studies that analyse the effect of migrants in general, as opposed to skilled migrants, often find a negative effect on productivity; see for example, Kangasniemi et al (2012) for the UK and Spain, and Paserman (2013) for Israel.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Skilled immigrants' contribution to productive efficiency

Nahm

Tani

2015

Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy

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The economic impact of migration: productivity analysis for Spain and the UK

Cited by 59 publications

References 35 publications

Performance, labour flexibility and migrant workers in hotels: An establishment and departmental level analysis

Performance, labour flexibility and migrant workers in hotels: An establishment and departmental level analysis

Decomposing the Impact of Immigration on House Prices

Skilled immigrants' contribution to productive efficiency

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