Do migrants affect the local product mix? An analysis of the effects and underlying mechanisms
| Autor: | Alessia Lo Turco, Elizabeth Jane Casabianca, Daniela Maggioni |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Economics and Econometrics
Immigration local production structure capital intensity Public economics capital intensity 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development Settore SECS-P/02 - POLITICA ECONOMICA Settore SECS-P/06 - ECONOMIA APPLICATA Immigration Affect (psychology) Settore SECS-P/01 - ECONOMIA POLITICA Product mix 0502 economics and business Economics local production structure 050207 economics 050205 econometrics |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Economic Geography. 22:755-777 |
| ISSN: | 1468-2710 1468-2702 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/jeg/lbab017 |
| Popis: | We study the impact of immigration on the product mix of the receiving economy by combining information on the local presence of immigrants with a highly detailed definition of the set of goods produced by Italian provinces. For the period 2002–2011, we find that an increase in the share of migrants shifts the manufacturing output composition of host provinces in favour of less capital intensive products. This evidence is based on an IV strategy resting on the settlement of immigrants in the pre-sample period and is robust to several sensitivity checks. We shed light on two mechanisms potentially driving our result. On the one hand, we show that immigration reduces provinces’ dependence on imports of low capital intensity intermediate goods. On the other hand, immigration fosters relatively more the creation of new firms in local low capital intensity industries. |
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