[HTML][HTML] The impact of forced displacement on host communities: A review of the empirical literature in economics

P Verme, K Schuettler - Journal of Development Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
The paper reviews 59 empirical studies that estimated the economic impact of forced
displacement on host communities. A review of the empirical models used by these studies …

The impact of immigration on the labor market

A Edo - Journal of Economic Surveys, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The literature on the impact of immigration on the labor market is highly controversial. The
aim of this paper is to review the existing literature and draw some general conclusions on …

Shift-share instruments and the impact of immigration

DA Jaeger, J Ruist, J Stuhler - 2018 - nber.org
ABSTRACT A large literature exploits geographic variation in the concentration of
immigrants to identify their impact on a variety of outcomes. To address the endogeneity of …

Gifts of the immigrants, woes of the natives: Lessons from the age of mass migration

M Tabellini - The Review of Economic Studies, 2020 - academic.oup.com
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 …

The impact of immigration: Why do studies reach such different results?

C Dustmann, U Schönberg, J Stuhler - Journal of Economic …, 2016 - aeaweb.org
We classify the empirical literature on the wage impact of immigration into three groups,
where studies in the first two groups estimate different relative effects, and studies in the third …

The impact of the Wuhan Covid-19 lockdown on air pollution and health: a machine learning and augmented synthetic control approach

MA Cole, RJR Elliott, B Liu - Environmental and Resource Economics, 2020 - Springer
We quantify the impact of the Wuhan Covid-19 lockdown on concentrations of four air
pollutants using a two-step approach. First, we use machine learning to remove the …

The political effects of immigration: Culture or economics?

A Alesina, M Tabellini - Journal of Economic Literature, 2024 - pubs.aeaweb.org
We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss
the effects of immigration on a wide range of political and social outcomes. The existing …

The abolition of immigration restrictions and the performance of firms and workers: evidence from Switzerland

A Beerli, J Ruffner, M Siegenthaler, G Peri - American Economic …, 2021 - aeaweb.org
We study a reform that granted European cross-border workers free access to the Swiss
labor market and had a stronger effect on regions close to the border. The greater …

Migration and labor market integration in Europe

D Dorn, J Zweimüller - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2021 - aeaweb.org
The European labor market allows for the border-free mobility of workers across 31
countries that cover most of the continent's population. However, rates of migration across …

Cherry picking with synthetic controls

B Ferman, C Pinto, V Possebom - Journal of Policy Analysis …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We evaluate whether a lack of guidance on how to choose the matching variables used in
the Synthetic Control (SC) estimator creates specification‐searching opportunities. We …