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Migration, Labor Tasks and Production Structure in Europe

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  • Stefania Borelli

    (Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali ed Economiche, Sapienza-Università di Roma)

  • Giuseppe De Arcangelis

    (Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali ed Economiche, Sapienza-Università di Roma)

Abstract

This paper assesses the effect of the immigration on the production structure in a selection of European countries in 2001-2009 with a task-based approach. The infl ow of immigrants represents an increase in the relative supply of manual-physical (or simple) tasks, hence favoring simple-task intensive sectors. We use a new OECD dataset, PIAAC, to calculate the index of simple-task intensity at the country-industry level. The analysis confirms that the increase in migration stocks caused a positive impact on the value added of sectors that use more intensively simple tasks. These effects are more intense when considering countries as Italy and Spain characterized by a recent, rapid and intense in flow of migrants. Endogeneity issues are discussed and instruments based on a gravity approach are used in estimation.

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  • Stefania Borelli & Giuseppe De Arcangelis, 2016. "Migration, Labor Tasks and Production Structure in Europe," Working Papers 4/16, Sapienza University of Rome, DISS.
    • Handle: RePEc:saq:wpaper:4/16
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    2. Fiorentini, Riccardo & Verashchagina, Alina, "undated". "Immigration and trade: the case study of Veneto region in Italy," 2017 Sixth AIEAA Conference, June 15-16, Piacenza, Italy 261261, Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AIEAA).
    3. Augusto Cerqua & Guido Pellegrini & Ornella Tarola, 2022. "Can regional policies shape migration flows?," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 101(3), pages 515-536, June.

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    • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
    • C25 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities

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