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Paris Migration Economics Seminar

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• 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

  Abstract

  We 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.

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• 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

  Abstract

  Tom 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

  Abstract

  Refugees 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)

  Abstract

  This 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

  Abstract

  From 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

  Abstract

  We 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

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• 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