The Effects of Immigration on the Economy: Lessons From the 1920s Border Closure

Abramitzky, Ran; Ager, Philipp; Boustan, Leah Platt; Cohen, Elior; Hansen, Casper Worm

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3513619

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“…This is important because it suggests that endogenous population responses are unlikely to introduce systematic (upwards) bias in my estimates for the economic e¤ects of immigration. One possibility, consistent with …ndings in the recent working paper by Abramitzky et al (2019), is that rural areas were negatively a¤ected by immigration to cities, as workers and economic resources moved away from the periphery (i.e. the countryside) and into the core of local economies (i.e.…”

Section: E1 Immigrants-natives Complementaritiessupporting

confidence: 72%

Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration

Tabellini¹

2019

The Review of Economic Studies

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In this article, I jointly investigate the political and the economic effects of immigration, and study the causes of anti-immigrant sentiments. I exploit exogenous variation in European immigration to U.S. cities between 1910 and 1930 induced by World War I and the Immigration Acts of the 1920s, and instrument immigrants’ location decision relying on pre-existing settlement patterns. I find that immigration triggered hostile political reactions, such as the election of more conservative legislators, higher support for anti-immigration legislation, and lower redistribution. Exploring the causes of natives’ backlash, I document that immigration increased natives’ employment, spurred industrial production, and did not generate losses even among natives working in highly exposed sectors. These findings suggest that opposition to immigration was unlikely to have economic roots. Instead, I provide evidence that natives’ political discontent was increasing in the cultural differences between immigrants and natives. Results in this article indicate that, even when diversity is economically beneficial, it may nonetheless be socially hard to manage.

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Section: E1 Immigrants-natives Complementaritiessupporting

confidence: 72%

Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration

Tabellini¹

2019

The Review of Economic Studies

246

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“…The dominant pattern in the national total in the upper left is the fluctuation in the share of foreign-born population, which compressed substantially after immigration restrictions in the early-to-middle 20th century (see Abramitzky et al (2019)). In recent decades, an increasingly larger proportion of population growth is due to the arrival of the foreign born.…”

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Fast Locations and Slowing Labor Mobility

Coate

Mangum

2019

Working Paper (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)

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Declining internal migration in the United States is driven by increasing home attachment in locations with initially high rates of population turnover. These "fast" locations were the population growth destinations of the 20th century, where home attachments were low, but have increased as regional population growth has converged. Using a novel measure of attachment, this paper estimates a structural model of migration that distinguishes moving frictions from home utility. Simulations quantify candidate explanations of the decline. Rising home attachment accounts for most of the decline not attributable to population aging, and its effect is consistent with the observed spatial pattern.

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“…11 See e.g. Abramitzky et al (2019) and Theoharides (2020) for a similar empirical strategy applied to the analysis of the impact of migration. See Bauernschuster et al (2015) for an application of the same strategy to a fertility policy evaluation Time and space fixed effects are added to all the estimates to control for time invariant location characteristics and common time trends.…”

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Immigrant supply of marketable child care and native fertility in Italy

Mariani

Rosati

2021

J. Dem. Econ.

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The availability of child-care services has often been advocated as one of the instruments to counter the fertility decline observed in many high-income countries. In the recent past, large inflows of low-skilled migrants have substantially increased the supply of child-care services. In this paper, we examine if immigration has actually affected fertility exploiting the natural experiment occurred in Italy in 2007, when a large inflow of migrants—many of them specialized in the supply of child care—arrived unexpectedly. With a difference-in-differences method, we show that immigrant female workers have increased native births by a number that ranges roughly from 2% to 4%. We validate our result by the implementation of an instrumental variable approach and several robustness tests, all concluding that the increase in the supply of child-care services by immigrant women has positively affected native fertility.

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The Effects of Immigration on the Economy: Lessons From the 1920s Border Closure

Cited by 12 publications

References 50 publications

Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration

Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration

Fast Locations and Slowing Labor Mobility

Immigrant supply of marketable child care and native fertility in Italy

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