Why local housing markets matter for immigration and import competition effects
Christoph Albert and Joan Monràs explain why immigration and trade shocks have different impacts on regional economies.
Tag Archive: immigration
What is the effect of immigration on gender gaps in the labor market?
Using a structural model for the U.S. economy, Joan Llull empirically quantifies the importance of two mechanisms: the differential labor market competition induced by immigration on male and female workers, and the availability of cheaper childcare services.
Video: Dynamic Modeling of Labor Market Mobility and Human Capital Accumulation (ERC Starting Grant)
Joan Llull discusses his ERC Starting Grant project in this short video.
“Pushing” through the data: Are migrants affecting wages?
Migration is a given. It happens. But what effect does it have on the wages of those already living in the destination country? Joan Llull develops a new estimation technique and uses push factors and distance to investigate how wages in the United States and Canada respond to immigration.
