“How does low skilled immigration affect the labour market of natives?” began Joan Monràs from Columbia University at the seminar. “You will be surprised that despite vast studies on wage benefits of migration, there is no consensus amongst researchers!”
He made use of the Mexican Peso Crisis of the mid-1990s that raised net Mexican migration to the US to identify the causal effect of immigration on local labor markets across time, space, skill and age. Time, because more people are expected to settle in a given year; space, since most Mexicans settle in particular areas...
The Navarra Center for International Development recently launched a Call for Papers for our 3rd Annual Development Week from June 2-6, 2014. The NCID will consider papers from the fields of Economics, Political Science, and Sociology as they relate to the theme of this year's Congress Africa: A promising future. Research papers may include, but are not limited to, areas such as Macroeconomic Stability, Economics of Innovation, Technology Transfers, Political Instability, Public Policy, Migration, and Education.
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The job market paper presented by Santiago Pereda Social Spillovers in the Classroom: Identi cation, Estimation and Policy Analysis displayed a new method of identifying and estimating the strength of social spillovers in the classroom and the distribution of teacher and student effects. Identification depended on the assumptions of double randomization of teacher and students to classrooms and the linear in means equation of test scores. The linear independent factor representation of test scores allowed more efficient estimates of the social multiplier and the comb...