1st European Workshop on the Macroeconomic Implications of Migration

Thursday, June 13

Paris School of Economics, Daniel Cohen Auditorium

12:45-13:00 – Opening Session and Greetings
Greetings: Tobias Broer (PSE, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Aitor Lacuesta (Banco de España), Hillel Rapoport (PSE, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

13:00-14:00 – Keynote Lecture 1: Do immigrants hurt local public finances? Evidence from Italy 
Speaker: Anna-Maria Mayda (Georgetown University)
Chair: Tobias Broer (PSE, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

14:00-16:00 – Session 1: Labor
Chair: Joan Monras (San Francisco Fed)

Chad Sparber (Colgate University): Buying Lottery Tickets for Foreign Workers: Lost Quota Rents Induced by H-1B Policy (with Rishi Sharma)
Discussant: Cem Özgüzel (OECD)

Gabriele Lucchetti (University of Nottingham): Skills, Distortions, and the Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants across Space
Discussant: Gianluca Santoni (CEPII)

Tobias Müller (Université de Genève): Immigration and the Slope of the Labor Demand Curve: The Role of Firm Heterogeneity in a Model of Regional Labor Markets (with Andrea Ariu and Tuan Nguyen)
Discussant: Joan Monras (San Francisco Fed)

16:00-16:30- Coffee break

16:30-18:30 – Session 2: Productivity
Chair: Aitor Lacuesta (Banco de España)

Tessa Hall (London School of Economics and Political Science): Immigration and firm-level productivity: Evidence from the UK (with Alan Manning)
Discussant: Luca De Benedictis (Universitas Mercatorum)

Morgan Raux (University of Luxembourg): Recruitment Competition and Highly-Skilled Workers
Discussant: Jérôme Valette (CEPII)

Sara Signorelli (CREST): Too Constrained to Grow Analysis of Firms’ Response to the Alleviation of Skill Shortages (with François Fontaine)
Discussant: Aitor Lacuesta (Banco de España)

18:30-19:30 – Keynote Lecture 2: Persecution and Escape: High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany 
Speaker: Fabian Waldinger (LMU Munich)
Chair: Hillel Rapoport (PSE, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

20:30 – Conference Dinner at CEPII

Friday, June 14

CEPII, salle de presse (ground floor)

08:45-09:00 – Greetings
Christophe Destais (CEPII), Antoine Bouët (CEPII), Giovanni Peri (University of California, Davis)

09:00-10:00 – Keynote Lecture 3: Immigration and the macroeconomics of populism 
Speaker: Frederic Docquier (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research)
Chair: Christophe Destais (CEPII)

10:00-10:30 – Coffee break

10:30-12:30 – Session 1: Macro
Chair: Tobias Broer (PSE, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Francesco Furlanetto (Norges Bank): Immigration and Inequality: New Macroeconomic Evidence (with Ørjan Robstad and Samad Sarferaz)
Discussant: Anthony Edo (CEPII)

Adrien Bilal (Harvard University): Anticipating Climate Change Across the United States (with Esteban Rossi-Hansberg)
Discussant: Michal Burzynski (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research)

Simon Goerlach (Bocconi University): Asymmetric Shocks and Heterogeneous Worker Mobility in the Euro Zone (with Riccardo Franceschini)
Discussant: Tobias Broer (PSE, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

12:30-14:00 – Lunch

14:00-16:00 – Session 2: Development
Chair: Hillel Rapoport (PSE, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Michal Burzynski (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research): A Spatial Macroeconomic Model of Climate Migration (with Aleksandra Szymanska)
Discussant: Mattéo Neri-Lainé (Université Paris Dauphine-PSL)

Clément Imbert (Sciences Po): Rural Migrants and Urban Informality: Evidence from Brazil (with Gabriel Ulyssea)
Discussant: Joseph-Simon Görlach (Bocconi University)

Awa Ambra Seck (Harvard Business School): En Route: The French Colonial Army, Emigration, and Development in Morocco (with Ariane Salem)
Discussant: Hillel Rapoport (PSE, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

16:00-16:30 – Coffee break

16:30-17:30 – Keynote Lecture 4: The contribution of foreign graduates to start-up firms in the US 
Speaker: Giovanni Peri (University of California, Davis)
Chair: Antoine Bouët (CEPII)

17:30 – Farewell