Does immigration boost per capita income?

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Authors

  • Gabriel Felbermayr
  • Sanne Hiller
  • Davide Sala
Using a cross-section of countries, we adapt Frankel and Romer's (1999) IV strategy to international labor mobility. Controlling for institutional quality, trade, and financial openness, we establish a robust and non-negative causal effect of immigration on real per capita income.
Original languageEnglish
JournalEconomics Letters
Volume107
Issue number2
Pages (from-to)177–179
Number of pages3
ISSN0165-1765
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 05.2010

    Research areas

  • Economics - gravity Model, International trade, international migration, Cross-country income regression