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Eugenia Vella · Jordi Caballé · Joan Llull
Understanding
Migration with
Macroeconomics
Understanding Migration with Macroeconomics
Eugenia Vella • Jordi Caballé • Joan Llull
Editors
Understanding
Migration with
Macroeconomics
Editors
Eugenia Vella Jordi Caballé
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
MOVE, Barcelona, Spain
Barcelona GSE, Barcelona, Spain
Joan Llull
MOVE, Barcelona, Spain
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
Barcelona GSE, Barcelona, Spain
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Contents
1 I ntroduction 1
Eugenia Vella
Part I Migration and the Macroeconomy: Empirical Evidence 25
2 The Impact of Immigration on Productivity 27
Joan Llull
3 Macroeconomic Consequences of International Migration
for OECD Countries 59
Hippolyte d’Albis and Ekrame Boubtane
4 The Economics of Brain Waste 87
Emily R. Barker
Part II Migration and the Macroeconomy: A Search and
Matching Approach 115
5 Immigration and Job Creation 117
Andri Chassamboulli
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6 Doing Business in the Shadows: Informal Firms, Irregular
Immigrants and the Government 161
Eleni Kyrkopoulou and Theodore Palivos
7 Productivity Shocks, VAT Hikes and Emigration 187
Guilherme Bandeira, Jordi Caballé, and Eugenia Vella
8 Economic Migration with Matching Frictions and
Business Cycle Amplification 223
Matija Lozej
Part III Interdisciplinary Insights 251
9 Insights into Migration with Macroeconomics:
An Interdisciplinary Assessment 253
Emmanuel Comte and Anna Kyriazi
Index 277
Notes on Contributors
Guilherme Bandeira holds a Ph.D. from the European University Institute
in Florence and is affiliated with the New South Wales Treasury in Australia.
Previously, Guilherme worked as a Staff Economist in the Macro-financial
Analysis and Monetary Policy Department of the Bank of Spain. His work
has appeared in the International Journal of Central Banking.
Emily R. Barker is an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
funded Ph.D. student at the University of Sheffield, UK, and an associate
fellow of the Higher Education Academy. The title of her Ph.D. thesis is
“Essays in the Macroeconomics of Migration”.
Ekrame Boubtane is Associate Professor of Economics and Fellow of
the Centre for Studies and Research on International Development at
University Clermont Auvergne in France. She is also Invited Professor at
the Paris School of Economics. Her research interests are in international
migration. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Economic Dynamics
and Control and Oxford Economic Papers, among others.
Jordi Caballé is Professor of Economics at Universitat Autònoma de
Barcelona, fellow of Fundació Markets Organizations and Votes in
Economics (MOVE) and affiliated professor at the Barcelona Graduate
School of Economics. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of
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Pennsylvania. He has authored more than 35 journal articles, and they
have appeared in many journals, including Econometrica, Journal of
Political Economy, and Review of Economic Studies.
Andri Chassamboulli is Assistant Professor of Economics at the
University of Cyprus. Andri holds a Ph.D. from the University of
Maryland. Most of her research is on frictional labour markets and immi-
gration. Her research has appeared in journals such as the International
Economic Review and Review of Economic Dynamics.
Emmanuel Comte is a Senior Research Fellow in the area of Migrations at
CIDOB, Barcelona Centre for International Affairs. Emmanuel holds a
Ph.D. in the History of Europe and of International Relations from Sorbonne
University. Previously, he held positions at the European University Institute,
the University of California, Berkeley, and the Vienna School of International
Studies. He has recently published The History of the European Migration
Regime: Germany’s Strategic Hegemony (Routledge, 2018).
Hippolyte d’Albis is Senior Researcher at CNRS and Professor at the
Paris School of Economics. He specializes in population ageing, genera-
tional economics, and international migration. He is an associate editor
at the Journal of the Economics of Ageing, the Journal of Demographic
Economics, and Public Finance Review. His work has appeared in the
Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Mathematical Economics and
International Economic Review, among others.
Anna Kyriazi is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Milan.
Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institut
Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals. She holds a Ph.D. in Political and
Social Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence. She
works on comparative ethnicity and nationalism, migration, and political
communication. She has published in Ethnic and Migration Studies and
Ethnicities and with top academic publishers.
Eleni Kyrkopoulou is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Athens University of
Economics and Business and a Research Analyst at the National Bank of
Greece. Her research interests lie in the areas of Labour Economics,
Immigration, Crime, and Education.
Notes on Contributors ix
Joan Llull is Director of Fundació Markets Organizations and Votes in
Economics (MOVE), Associate Professor at Universitat Autònoma de
Barcelona, and affiliated Professor at the Barcelona Graduate School of
Economic. His work has appeared in the Review of Economic Studies and
the Journal of Human Resources, among others. He holds a Starting Grant
from the European Research Council. He has editorial positions at
Economic Journal, Review of Economic Studies, Labour Economics,
and SERIES.
Matija Lozej is a Senior Economist at the Central Bank of Ireland, Irish
Economic Analysis, Macroeconomic Modelling. Matija holds a Ph.D. from
the University of Amsterdam. He has worked with small open economy
and multi-country Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium models
with labour market and financial frictions. His work has appeared in
NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics, International Journal of
Central Banking, and Labour Economics, among others.
Theodore Palivos is Professor of Economics at Athens University of
Economics and Business. He has also been on the faculty of Louisiana
State University and Tilburg University. His research interests are in the
areas of Labour Economics, Macroeconomics, and Public Economics.
He has served on several editorial boards and as co-editor of the Journal
of Macroeconomics. He has authored more than 35 journal articles, and
they have appeared in many journals, including American Economic
Review, Review of Economic Studies, International Economic Review, and
Journal of Economic Theory.
Eugenia Vella is an Assistant Professor at the University of Sheffield,
UK, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in Fundació Markets
Organizations and Votes in Economics (MOVE) in Barcelona. Previously,
she was Jean Monnet and Max Weber Fellow at the European University
Institute in Florence. She holds a Ph.D. from the Athens University of
Economics and Business. Her work has appeared in the Journal of
International Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, and
Economic Inquiry, among others.
List of Figures
Fig. 1.1 Population share (%) of immigrants in EU15 countries
(except for Luxembourg), 2017. (Source: Eurostat) 4
Fig. 1.2 Percentage change in immigrant population share in EU15
countries, 2009–2017. (Source: Eurostat) 5
Fig. 1.3 Net migration flows (outflows-inflows) for Europe’s
peripheral countries in thousands of people, 2002–2016.
(Source: Eurostat) 6
Fig. 1.4 Education attainment by country of birth, 2017. Note:
Level 0–2: less than primary, primary and lower secondary
education; Level 3–4: upper secondary and post-secondary
non-tertiary education; Level 5–8: tertiary education.
(Source: Eurostat) 8
Fig. 1.5 Age structure of the national and non-national populations
(%), EU28, 1 January 2016. (Source: Eurostat) 9
Fig. 1.6 Sum of migration inflows (in thousands) to Germany from
Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Latvia,
Hungary. (Source: Destatis) 9
Fig. 1.7 Sum of migration inflows (in thousands) to Germany from
Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain. (Source: Destatis) 10
Fig. 1.8 Age structure of the national (left) and non-national (right)
populations (%), Germany, 2017. (Source: Eurostat) 11
Fig. 1.9 Educational attainment in Germany by country of birth,
2017. Note: Level 0–2: less than primary, primary and lower
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