Seminars
Paris Migration Economics Seminar
The Paris Migration Economics Seminar is a bi-monthly lunch seminar which takes place on Mondays, from 12:30 to 13:30, at PSE (48 Boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris).
Most sessions consist of a one-hour presentation by an international researcher. Some sessions will be organised as short workshops with more than two speakers. The aim of this seminar series is to provide a forum for discussing high quality empirical and theoretical research on migration and population economics.
The organisers are Hillel Rapoport (hillel.rapoport at psemail.eu), Benjamin Michallet (benjamin.michallet at psemail.eu), Javier Soria Espín (javier.soria-espin at psemail.eu) and Artur Obminski (artur.obminski at psemail.eu).
The operational contact is Sarah Dafer (sarah.dafer at psemail.eu).
To register to this seminar mailing list : sarah.dafer at psemail.eu
This seminar is co-funded by a French government subsidy managed by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche under the framework of the Investissements d’avenir programme reference ANR-17-EURE-0001.
Please find the seminar website with schedule here: https://sites.google.com/view/parismigrationseminar
Upcoming events
- Monday 12 June 2023 12:30-13:30
- Salle R2.20, campus jourdan
- ZENOU Yves (Monash University) : Ethnic Mixing in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment and a Structural Model
- AbstractWe study the social integration of ethnic minority children in the context of an early childhood program conducted in Turkey aimed at preparing 5-year-old native and Syrian refugee children for primary school. We randomly assign children to groups with varying ethnic composition and find that exposure to children of the other ethnicity leads to an increase in the formation of interethnic friendships. We also find that the Turkish language skills of Syrian children are better developed in classes with a larger presence of Turkish children and that these positive effects persist into primary school. We then develop a model of language acquisition and friendship formation, with language skills acting as a key input in the formation of interethnic friendships. Structural estimation of the model suggests that interethnic exposure reduces the share of own-ethnicity friends (homophily) and has a non-monotonic effect on the propensity to form own-ethnicity friendships beyond what would be expected given the size of the group (inbreeding homophily). Counterfactual analysis indicates that the language skills of Syrian children are as important as ethnic bias for the integration of Syrian children.
Archives
- Monday 15 May 2023 12:30-13:30
- Salle R1.14, Campus Jourdan
- FELFE Christina (U. Würzburg) : On the formation of ingroup bias: The role of ethnic diversity and cultural distance
- Monday 17 April 2023 15:00-18:30
- site Ulm du Collège de France
- Workshop joint avec l'Institut Convergences Migrations
- AbstractTom Raster (PSE) Liam Wren-Lewis (PSE) Mathilde Emeriau (LSE)
- Monday 3 April 2023 12:30-13:30
- Salle R1.14, Campus Jourdan
- FRATTINI Tommaso (U.Milano) : From Refugees to Citizens: Returns to Naturalization and Labour Market Outcomes
- AbstractRefugees typically display weaker socio-economic status, lower well-being and a more fragile integration in host country than comparable immigrants. In contrast with this widespread disadvantage, we document that refugees hold the lead among foreign-born citizens in naturalization rates, largely because of the more favourable naturalization requirements that they typically face. We then analyze the labour market returns to naturalization of refugees and other migrants across European countries. We propose an instrumental variable strategy based on differences in eligibility rules across countries, cohorts, and immigrant status to deal with endogenous selection into naturalization. Our estimates point at large returns from citizenship for refugees: naturalized refugees completely fill the gap with comparable migrants in employment and participation. Positive returns on job quality are observed for other migrants
- Monday 20 March 2023 12:30-13:30
- Salle R1.14, Campus Jourdan
- DÉMURGER Sylvie (IAO Lyon/ CNRS) : Migration and financial inclusion - Evidence from rural Chinese households
- Anna Jolivet (U. of Namur)
- AbstractThis paper assesses the effect of rural-to-urban migration on sending households' financial practices and investigates the various mechanisms possibly driving this effect. China is an attractive case for this study as it combines massive internal migration flows with dramatic changes in financial services over the past 20 years. Using household-level data from rural China in 2018 and applying an instrumental variable approach, we show that the use of financial services by left-behind families is altered by migration. We specifically explore the access to formal savings, the use of digital payments and the types of debts that households take on. We further disaggregate our analysis to investigate any differential impact of migration across various types of households. As far as the mechanisms at stake are concerned, we examine the income effect of remittances on financial practices, as well as changes that may be driven by a transfer of practices and knowledge and/or by a shift in the decision-making power within the household
- Monday 13 March 2023 12:30-13:30
- Salle R1.14, Campus Jourdan
- GIUNTELLA Osea (U. Pittsburgh) : Ethnic churches, enclave neighborhoods and immigrant assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration
- Ran Abramitsky et Leah Boustan
- AbstractFrom 1850 to 1913, more than 30 million European immigrants moved to US. Many immigrants lived in segregated enclaves. Did living in immigrant enclaves slow economic and cultural assimilation? To examine this question, we explore variation in the building of ethnic Catholic churches across otherwise similar neighborhoods. We collect data on the universe of Catholic churches in 4 large cities–Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York. We merge with complete-count Census records for detailed information on local residents (1900-1930) and compare residents before and after a new church is constructed to similar neighborhoods using an event-study and a matched difference-in-differences approach. We find that the construction of a new Polish church anchors Polish residents to the neighborhood, slows their cultural assimilation, and reduces their economic assimilation. As a natural placebo, we show that the effects of a construction of a Polish church are not-significant when restricting the analysis to Polish Jews. We instead find little evidence of significant effects among Italians.
- Monday 13 February 2023 12:30-13:30
- Salle R1.14, Campus Jourdan
- SIGNORELLI Sara (University of Amsterdam) : Talent Flows and the Geography of Knowledge Production: Causal Evidence from Multinational Firms
- with D. Bahar, P. Choudhury, J. Sappenfield
- AbstractWe investigate how reforms that ease or restrict inventor mobility affect both local and global innovation patterns. Leveraging a unique dataset that merges patent data with exhaustive information on work-related migration reforms that took place in 15 countries over 26 years, we employ a novel event-study approach. Our results show that reforms discouraging inventor mobility decrease the patenting of MNE subsidiaries within a country, while reforms encouraging it have a positive but much smaller effect. Building on the global nature of our exercise, we show that positive (negative) reforms adopted in the U.S. shifted innovation away from (toward) other countries, highlighting the existence of a global competition for talent. Finally, we provide evidence that policies easing migration have facilitated about half of the shift in the global share of innovation toward emerging markets.
- Monday 30 January 2023 12:30-13:30
- Salle R1.09, Campus Jourdan
- MENDOLA Mariapia (Université de Milan-Bicocca) : The Political Backlash to Refugee Settlement: Cultural and Economic Drivers
- with Francesco Campo, Sara Giunti and Giulia Tura
- Monday 5 December 2022 12:30-13:30
- Salle R2.01, Campus Jourdan
- DE LA CROIX David (UC Louvain) : Winners and Losers from the Protestant Reformation: An Analysis of the Network of European Universities
- P. Morault
- Full text [pdf]
- Monday 21 November 2022 10:30-14:30
- Salle R2.01, Campus Jourdan
- CINQUE Andrea (CES) : Joint seminar with IC Migrations
- GONNOT Jérôme (CEPII)
- LISSONI Francesco (Université de Bordeaux)
- ZAPPALÀ Guglielmo (PSE)
- Monday 17 October 2022 12:30-13:30
- Salle R1.15, Campus Jourdan
- STUHLER Jan (U. Carlos III de Madrid) : Immigration and Monopsony: Evidence Across the Distribution of Firms