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on Economics of Human Migration |
| By: | Nora Prean (University of Vienna, Austria); Karin Mayr |
| Abstract: | We analyze differences in unemployment between natives and immigrants over the business cycle. Using matched employer-employee data for Austria, we find that immigrants' unemployment rate and flows into and out of unemployment are significantly more sensitive to labor market shocks than those of comparable natives. This is particularly true for immigrants from outside the European Economic Area. According to existing theory, a greater variability in the employment of immigrants can be due to a selection of immigrant workers into specific industries or temporary jobs. However, we do not find this confirmed in our data. |
| Keywords: | Unemployment rate, Immigration, Guestworker, Immigrant Labor |
| JEL: | J64 J61 |
| Date: | 2012–09 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:jku:nrnwps:2012_10&r=mig |
| By: | Giuranno, Michele G.; Rongili, Biswas |
| Abstract: | This paper develops a model of centralized public spending where decision-makers are the regional median voters instead of the national median voter of the received literature. Regional representatives decide the level of public spending by bargaining in the central legislature. We study how exogenous changes in the composition of the regional electorate either deteriorate or mitigate inter-jurisdictional redistributive conflicts and how these, in turn, influence the size of the government. We find the conditions under which migration-induced inter-regional income convergence (divergence) leads either to a bigger or a smaller government. Finally, the relationship between migration and efficiency is explored within the present framework. |
| Keywords: | Demographic Changes; Government Spending; Inequality; Redistribution; Bargaining; Political Economy Theory |
| JEL: | H50 R1 D30 H41 D78 H00 |
| Date: | 2012–10–29 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:42604&r=mig |