CEPII, Recherche et Expertise sur l'economie mondiale
Thursday June 13, 2024 - Friday June 14, 2024
PSE and CEPII, Paris
First European Workshop on the "Macroeconomic Implications of Migration"


 

The International Migration Economics Chair, the International Macroeconomics Chair, the CEPII, the Bank of Spain and the Global Migration Center at the University of California, Davis are pleased to invite you to the first edition of the European Workshop on the Macroeconomic Implications of Migration.

  • Dates: June 13-14, 2024
  • Venue:
    - on June 13, 2024, Paris School of Economics, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, Daniel Cohen Auditorium
    - on June 14, 2024, CEPII, 20 avenue de Ségur 75007 Paris, room 0375 (ground floor)


REGISTRATION FOR JUNE 13 (AT THE PARIS SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS)
REGISTRATION FOR JUNE 14 (AT THE CEPII)

Program

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