L Bottazzi… - European Economic Review, 2003 - Elsevier
This paper estimates the effect of research externalities in generating innovation. We use
R&D and patent data for European Regions in the 1977–1995 period. We find that spillovers
are very localized and exist only within a distance of 300 km. The estimates are robust to ...
M Obstfeld… - 1999 - nber.org
How will countries handle idiosyncratic national macroeconomic shocks under the
European single currency? The ways in which European countries now react to internally
asymmetric shocks provide a better forecast than do the regional response pattern of the ...
GIP Ottaviano… - Journal of Economic Geography, 2006 - Oxford Univ Press
Abstract What are the economic consequences to US natives of the growing diversity of
American cities? Is their productivity or utility affected by cultural diversity as measured by
diversity of countries of birth of US residents? We document in this paper a very robust ...
GIP Ottaviano… - 2006 - nber.org
This paper asks the following question: what was the effect of surging immigration on
average and individual wages of US-born workers during the period 1990-2004? We
emphasize the need for a general equilibrium approach to analyze this problem. The ...
G Peri - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2005 - MIT Press
Knowledge flows within and across countries may have important consequences for both
productivity and innovation. We use data on 1.5 million patents and 4.5 million citations to
estimate knowledge flows at the frontier of technology across 147 subnational regions ...
A Ciccone… - Review of economic studies, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The identification of aggregate human-capital externalities is still not fully understood. The
existing (Mincerian) approach confounds positive externalities with wage changes due to a
downward sloping demand curve for human capital. As a result, the Mincerian approach ...
GIP Ottaviano… - 2005 - nber.org
Recent influential empirical work has emphasized the negative impact immigrants have on
the wages of US-born workers, arguing that immigration harms less educated American
workers in particular and all US-born workers in general. Because US and foreign born ...
GIP Ottaviano… - 2008 - nber.org
This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national
US level. Following Borjas (2003) we focus on national labor markets for workers of different
skills and we enrich his methodology and refine previous estimates. We emphasize that a ...
GIP Ottaviano… - Journal of Urban Economics, 2005 - Elsevier
We investigate whether cultural diversity across US cities (measured as the variety of native
languages spoken by city residents) is associated with any effect on their productivity.
Diversity of cultures may imply diversity of production skills, of abilities and of occupations ...
G Peri… - American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2009 - JSTOR
Large inflows of less educated immigrants may reduce wages paid to comparably-educated,
native-born workers. However, if less educated foreign-and native-born workers specialize
in different production tasks, because of different abilities, immigration will cause natives ...
A Ciccone… - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2005 - MIT Press
We estimate the aggregate long-run elasticity of substitution between more educated
workers and less educated workers (the slope of the inverse demand curve for more relative
to less educated workers) at the US state level. Our data come from the (five) 1950-1990 ...
A Ciccone… - 2002 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Identification of the strength of human capital externalities at the aggregate level is
still not fully understood. The existing method may yield positive or negative externalities
even if wages reflect marginal social products. We propose an approach that yields ...
F d'Amuri, GIP Ottaviano… - European Economic Review, 2010 - Elsevier
In this article we estimate the wage and employment effects of recent immigration in Western
Germany. Using administrative data for the period 1987–2001 and a labor-market
equilibrium model, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990s had very little ...
F Ortega… - 2009 - nber.org
This paper contains three important contributions to the literature on international migrations.
First, it compiles a new dataset on migration flows (and stocks) and on immigration laws for
14 OECD destination countries and 74 sending countries for each year over the period ...
G Peri - 2007 - nber.org
As of 2004 California employed almost 30% of all foreign born workers in the US and was
the state with the largest percentage of immigrants in the labor force. It received a very large
number of uneducated immigrants so that two thirds of workers with no schooling degree ...
L Bottazzi… - 1999 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: The importance of innovation for the economic performance of industrialized
countries has been largely stressed recently by the theoretical and empirical literature. Very
few studies have carefully considered the determinants of European innovation, the ...
G Peri… - Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2006 - Elsevier
The presence of foreign multinational enterprises may benefit local economies. In particular,
highly productive foreign-owned firms may promote the technological catch-up of local firms.
This channel of spillovers is defined as the “Veblen–Gerschenkron” effect of foreign direct ...
L Bottazzi… - The Economic Journal, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
In this article we estimate the dynamic relationship between employment in R&D and
generation of knowledge as measured by patent applications across OECD countries. In
several recently developed models, known as 'idea-based'models of growth, the 'idea- ...
G Peri - Journal of urban Economics, 2002 - Elsevier
Since the 90s densely populated locations, such as urban areas, have attracted a
disproportionate share of young college-educated workers. We explain this stylized fact as a
result of colocation due to learning externalities among educated workers. Workers learn ...
S Iranzo… - 2006 - nber.org
The recent literature on local schooling externalities in the US is rather mixed: positive
external effects of average education levels are hardly to be found but, in contrast, positive
externalities from the share of college graduates can often be identified. This paper ...
G Ottaviano… - 2008 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: In this paper we document a strong positive correlation of immigration flows with
changes in average wages and average house rents for native residents across US states.
Instrumental variables estimates reveal that the correlations are compatible with a causal ...
A Ciccone… - … Pompeu Fabra, Economics Working Paper No …, 2000 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We combine growth theory with US Census data on individual schooling and
wages to estimate the aggregate return to human capital and human capital externalities in
cities. Our estimates imply that a one-year increase in average schooling in cities ...
G Peri - The BE Journal of Macroeconomics, 2004 - ideas.repec.org
< p> Italy makes for an interesting case-study of the impact of socio-cultural variables on
economic performance: under a common institutional framework differences in socio-cultural
attitudes across Italian provinces correspond to large differences in their economic ...
G Peri - 2003 - cepr.org
Abstract Knowledge flows within and across countries should be carrier of important
learning spillovers. The difficulty of measuring these flows has led the trade-growth literature
to proxy them using trade flows. However, the micro-productivity literature has developed ...
G Peri - 2009 - nber.org
Using the large variation in the inflow of immigrants across US states we analyze the impact
of immigration on state employment, average hours worked, physical capital accumulation
and, most importantly, total factor productivity and its skill bias. We use the location of a ...
G Peri - 2002 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: The diffusion of knowledge in the world generates positive externalities if
knowledge flows increase the productivity of R&D. Our work analyzes knowledge diffusion
and knowledge externalities in generating innovation and in determining productivity. We ...
E Wasmer, P Fredriksson, A Lamo… - … and Training in …, 2006 - spirepprd.sciences-po.fr
Background One year after its major Enlargement to 10 new Member States, Europe is
facing several challenges. It has known a relatively long period of slow growth, with one or
two percentage points below the United States in the last decade; at the same time, ...
A Ciccone, D Almond… - IGIER Working Paper No. 152, 1999 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Returns to scale to capital and the strength of capital externalities play a key role
for the empirical predictions and policy implications of different growth theories. We show
that both can be identified with individual wage data and implement our approach at the ...
G Peri… - 2007 - employees.oneonta.edu
The supposedly dire labor market effect of immigration is one reason why some politicians
called for tougher measures against illegal immigrants during the last Congress (2004–
2006). Moreover, the new Congress (2006–2008) is likely to revisit the immigration issue, ...
A Ciccone, G Peri… - 2003 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: In this article we estimate the long-run aggregate elasticity of substitution between
skilled and unskilled workers. This is an important parameter as it allows us to compute the
skill biased technological progress (SBTP) from the evolution of relative wages. However, ...
G Peri… - 2007 - nber.org
Many workers with low levels of educational attainment immigrated to the United States in
recent decades. Large inflows of less-educated immigrants would reduce wages paid to
comparably-educated native-born workers if the two groups compete for similar jobs. In a ...
S Iranzo… - Journal of International Economics, 2009 - Elsevier
The remarkable increase in trade flows and in migratory flows of highly educated people are
two important features of globalization of the last decades. This paper extends a two-country
model of inter-and intra-industry trade to a rich environment featuring technological ...
F Ortega… - 2009 - mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de
This paper contains three important contributions to the literature on international migrations.
First, it compiles a new dataset on migration flows and stocks and on immigration laws for 14
OECD destination countries and 74 sending countries for each year over the period 1980- ...
[CITATION] Higher education, innovation and growth
G Peri - Education and Training in Europe, Oxford University …, 2007
G Peri, E Molinari… - Journal of Asthma, 1991 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract 1. Examined the relationship between ill children, their families, and their doctors in
the handling of a child's illness. A modified version of the Asthma Problem Behavior
Checklist (TL Creer et al, 1983) adapted to suit Italian conditions, was used. The ...
G Peri… - 1998 - feem.it
Abstract In an empirical analysis, considering 236 US cities in the period 1980-1990, we
document a strong positive correlation between local supply of skills and their return. In
SMSA's where the average education of workers is high the education premium is also ...
G Peri… - Canadian Journal of Economics …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract This paper investigates the immigration-trade link using data on individual
exporting transactions and immigrants in Spanish provinces between 1995 and 2008. We
quantify the impact of new immigrants on the extensive margin (number of transactions) ...
F Docquier, Ç Özden… - 2010 - nber.org
In this paper, we simulate the long-run effects of migrant flows on wages of high-skilled and
low-skilled non-migrants in a set of countries using an aggregate model of national
economies. New in this literature we calculate the wage effect of emigration as well as ...
G Peri - 2004 - nber.org
The presence of foreign multinational enterprises may benefit local economies. In particular,
highly productive foreign-owned firms may promote technological catch-up of local firms.
Such channel of spillovers is defined as" Veblen-Geschenkron" effect of Foreign Direct ...
L Bottazzi… - CEPR Discussion Paper No. 4479, 2004 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: In this Paper, we estimate the dynamic relationship between resources used in
R&D by some OECD countries and their innovation output as measured by patent
applications. We first estimate a long-run cointegration relation using recently developed ...
P Di Blasio, E Molinari, G Peri… - Family Systems …, 1990 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract 1. Studied 14 family triads with an asthmatic child (aged 8–13 yrs) and a normal
control group to examine whether or not there is a relationship between the severity of the
symptoms and function/dysfunction of the family system. Decision making was used as an ...
[CITATION] Rethinking the effects of immigration on wages: New data and analysis from 1990-2004
G Peri - Immigration Policy in Focus, 2006
G Peri - 2005 - escholarship.org
Abstract: The nineties has been a period of increasing migratory flows from less developed
countries to industrialized nations. It is instructive to compare the two largest economies in
the world, the European Union and the United States, in terms of the magnitude, trends ...
[CITATION] Immigrants, skills, and wages: measuring the economic gains from immigration
G Peri - Immigration Policy in Focus, 2006
G Peri - Rivista di Politica Economica, 2004 - rivistapoliticaeconomica.it
21* gperi@ ucdavis. edu. I thank Marianne Feldman, Roger Gordon, Bronwyn Hall, Gordon
Hanson, Ann Harrison, John Helliwell, Henry Overman, Manuel Trajtenberg, MichelleWhite
for their helpful suggestions. Shireen Al Azzawi provided excellent Research Assistance. ...
GIP Ottaviano, G Peri… - 2010 - nber.org
How many" American jobs" have US-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring?
Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings
and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for US natives? We ...
G Peri - 2001 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Young highly educated workers developed in the 70's and 80's a preference for
working in larger cities. As a consequence highly educated young workers in 1990 were
over-represented in cities, in spite of the lower wage premium they earned for working in ...
L Bottazzi… - 2001 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: The importance of innovation for the economic performance of industrialized
countries has been largely stressed recently by the theoretical and empirical literature.
Moreover the intensity of knowledge externalities in generating innovation, is the key ...
K Mayr… - The BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2009 - econ.ucdavis.edu
Abstract This paper develops a novel model of optimal education, migra& tion and return by
heterogeneous, forward&looking agents. The model is parameterized and simulated to
analyze the effects of immigration policies, identifying the brain&drain, brain&gain and ...
G Peri… - Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Economic debate about the consequences of immigration in the United States has largely
focused on how influxes of foreign-born labor with little educational attainment have affected
similarly educated native-born workers. Fewer studies analyze the effect of immigration ...
[CITATION] How Large is the
SO Becker, A Ichino… - Brain Drain” from Italy, 2003
L Bottazzi… - 2005 - nber.org
In this paper we estimate the dynamic relationship between employment in R&D and
generation of knowledge as measured by patent applications across OECD countries. In
several recently developed models, known asidea-based'models of growth, the afore ...
[CITATION] International migration: some comparisons and lessons for the EU
G Peri - University of California, Davis, 2005
G Peri… - 1998 - igier.unibocconi.it
Abstract In an empirical analysis, considering 236 US cities in the period 1980-1990, we
document a strong positive correlation between local supply of education skills and their
return. In SMSA's where the average education of workers is high the education premium ...
S Bertoli, H Brücker, G Facchini, AM Mayda… - Brain Drain and Brain …, 2010 - frdb.org
Abstract This study examines the causes and consequences of highly skilled migration from
a receiving country perspective, and it contributes to a better understanding of skill-selective
immigration policies. About 20 million highly skilled immigrants resided in OECD countries ...
[CITATION] Innovation, demand, and knowledge spillovers: Evidence form European patent data
L Bottazi… - European Economic Review, 2003
[CITATION] Rethinking the Gains from Immigration on Wages
G Ottaviano… - NBER Working Paper, 2006
G Peri… - CReAM Discussion Paper Series, 2009 - dagliano.unimi.it
Abstract There is abundant evidence that immigrants' networks are associated with larger
trade flows between countries of origin and the country (or province) where they settle. The
causality of such relation and its magnitude, however, have not been proven beyond ...
G Peri - 1999 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: The literature pioneered by Krugman (1991a) now known as" New economic
geography" has developed very insightful models to understand phenomena as the
agglomeration of economic activity and the specialization of regions. Nevertheless I think ...
G Peri… - 2001 - gde.unibocconi.it
Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia Volume 60 - N. 1 (Giugno 2001) pp. 43-74 JOB
CREATION IN ITALY: GEOGRAPHY, DETERMINANTS AND PERSPECTIVES Giovanni
Peri* Alejandro Cuñat** Received: January 2001; accepted: May 2001 The extremely ...
G Peri… - 2008 - commons.colgate.edu
Abstract In “Native Internal Migration and the Labor Market Impact of Immigration,” George
Borjas (2006) identifies a strong negative correlation between immigration and native-born
employment in the US using local area data. This relationship is particularly strong at the ...
G Peri - Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2002 - Elsevier
The paper extends the 'dynamic'economic geography technique to analyze the evolution of
national specialization as trade costs decrease. As agglomeration economies arise, due to
the decrease of trade costs, countries could benefit from specializing in one sector. ...
G Peri - 2008 - eprints.ucl.ac.uk
Different US states have been affected by immigration to very different extents in recent
years. Immigration increases available workers in a state economy and, because of its
composition across education groups, it also increases the relative supply of less ...
S Iranzo… - 2007 - nber.org
Two prominent features of globalization in recent decades are the remarkable increase in
trade and in migratory flows between industrializing and industrialized countries. Due to
restrictive laws in the receiving countries and high migration costs, the increase in ...
G Peri - 2010 - migrationpolicy.org
Executive Summary The worst of the recent recession is probably over, but the US labor
market is still deeply depressed. It is natural, therefore, to revisit questions about the impact
of immigrants on the labor market through the lens of the current economic situation. Over ...
[CITATION] Economic Impacts of Migrants
G Peri - Migration in the 21st Century: Rights, Outcomes, and …, 2010
G Peri, DM Urban… - 2002 - dagliano.unimi.it
Abstract The presence of foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) can benefit local
economies. In particular, if MNEs are very productive compared to domestic firms, they may
promote learning and catch-up of local firms. Such a channel of spillovers from MNEs to ...
G Peri - work. pap., UC Davis, 2002 - emlab.berkeley.edu
Abstract This paper estimates knowledge flows across regions in Europe and North America
as revealed by patent citations. Only if these knowledge flows affect the productivity of
researchers in generating new ideas do they generate externalities in innovation. We find ...
G Peri - Davis: University of California, mimeo, 2005 - economics.ucdavis.edu
Abstract: The revival of international migration in the last fifteen years has spurred
economists to more systematically study their determinants and consequences. This
contribution expands the existing literature in two directions. First we focus on the ...
[CITATION] Technological Progress and Skills' Substitutability: US States 1950-1990
A Ciccone… - 2003 - CESifo Working Paper Series …
[CITATION] VLong) Run Substitutability between More and Less Educated Workers: Evidence from US States 1950) 1990V (with Antonio Ci) ccone) Review of …
C Antonio… - Vol, 2005
G Peri… - Journal of Urban Economics, 2011 - Elsevier
There is a long-standing debate among academics about the effect of immigration on native
internal migration decisions. If immigrants displace natives this may indicate a direct cost of
immigration in the form of decreased employment opportunity for native workers. ...
R Helg, G Peri… - EIB papers= Cahiers BEI, 2000 - dialnet.unirioja.es
... Abruzzo and Sicily: catching up and lagging behind. Autores: Rodolfo Helg, Giovanni Peri,
Gianfronco Viesti; Localización: EIB papers = Cahiers BEI, ISSN 0257-7755, Vol. 5, Nº 1, 2000 ,
págs. 61-88. Fundación Dialnet. Acceso de usuarios registrados. ...
[CITATION] Highly educated immigrants and occupational choice
G Peri… - Unpublished manuscript, University of California, Davis, 2008
G Peri - 2010 - nber.org
I show that a CES production-function-based approach with skill differentiation and
integrated national labor markets has predictions for the employment effect of immigrants at
the local level. The model predicts that if I look at the employment (rather than wage) ...
[CITATION] Human Capital and Externalities in Cities. Universitat Pompeu Fabra
A Ciccone… - 2000 - Barcelona, Mimeo
G Peri - FRBSF Economic Letter, 2010 - frbsf.org
A major challenge to immigration research is the difficulty of identifying the effects of
immigration on economic variables when we do not observe what would have happened if
immigration levels had been different, all else being equal. To get around this problem, we ...
G Peri - 2001 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: In an interesting and influential paper Robert Lucas (1993) considering the
experience of East Asian small economies, suggests that" on the job" learning could be the
principal engine of their miraculous growth in the last 20 years. In this paper I develop an ...
L Lambertini… - Boston College Working Papers in …, 2001 - ideas.repec.org
In the transitional phase towards full economic integration, European countries have the
possibility of re-shaping the continental geography of specialization. We use an Economic
Geography model of industrial agglomeration to show how fiscal incentives can be critical ...
G Peri - Journal of International Economics, 2011 - Elsevier
Abstract A framework that uses a Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) production
function with skill differentiation and integrated national labor markets has predictions for the
employment effect of immigrants at the local level. The employment (rather than wage) ...
L Bottazzi… - 2001 - lacea.org
Abstract In this paper we estimate the determinants of new ideas and the importance of
existing knowledge, brains and laboratories in the innovation production function of fifteen
OECD countries. We find that the returns to brains and spending in terms of economically ...
L Bottazzi… - NBER working paper, 2005 - econ.ucdavis.edu
Abstract In this paper we estimate the dynamic relationship between employment in R&D
and generation of knowledge as measured by patent applications across OECD countries.
In several recently developed models, known as 'idea-based'models of growth, the afore ...
[CITATION] Innovation and Spillovers in Regions: Evidence from European Patent Data” forthcoming in European Economic Review
B Laura… - 2002
This paper uses census and survey data to identify the wage earning ability and the
selectivity of recent Romanian migrants and returnees. We construct measures of selection
across skill groups and estimate the average and the skills-specific premium for migration ...
[CITATION] Tax-driven Specialization and International Integration
L Lambertini, G Peri… - 1999 - Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for …
GIP Ottaviano… - Center for Research and Analysis of Migration …, 2006 - princeton.edu
Abstract In this paper we document a strong positive association between immigration and
average wages and price of houses of native individuals across US states and metropolitan
areas over the period 1970-2005. Most of the existing literature, focussed on relative wage ...
[CITATION] Dieter Urban (London School of Economics and Political Science, CEP): The Veblen-Gerschenkron Effect of FDI in Mezzogiomo and East Germany'
G Peri - November2002
A Ciccone… - 2007 - books.google.com
Abstract The identification of aggregate human capital externalities is still not fully
understood. The existing (Mincerian) approach confuses positive externalities with wage
changes due to a downward sloping demand curve for human capital. As a result, it yields ...
G Peri… - Working Papers, 2006 - ideas.repec.org
This paper asks the following important question: what was the effect of surging immigration
on average and individual wages of US-born workers during the period 1990-2004?
Building on section VII of Borjas (2003) we emphasize the need for a general equilibrium ...
F Ortega… - 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Two large but separate bodies of literature analyze the economic effects of
international trade and immigration. Given that several factors are important determinants of
both trade and migration flows, the previous studies are vulnerable to a potentially serious ...
F D'Amuri… - 2011 - nber.org
In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on native jobs in fourteen Western
European countries. We test whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007
decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational distribution of natives ...
GIP Ottaviano… - Manuscript, Department of Economics UCLA, 2005 - phil.frb.org
Abstract The recent empirical literature generally finds negative (or weakly negative) effects
of the inflows of immigrants on the wages and employment of US-born workers within a skill
group. Our paper begins by revealing an empirical regularity apparently at odds with ...
[CITATION] Forthcoming. Rethinking the effect of immigration on wages
GIP Ottaviano… - Journal of the European Economic Association
G Peri… - 2007 - wings.buffalo.edu
Abstract Many workers with low levels of educational attainment immigrated to the United
States in recent decades. If such immigrants compete with native-born workers of
comparable educational attainment for similar jobs, this inflow would depress wages paid ...
[CITATION] Skills, Learning Externalities and Experience Premia
P Giovanni - Mimeographed, University of California Berkeley, 1998
[CITATION] Immigrants, Skills, and Wages: Reassessing the Economic Gains from Immigration
G Peri - IPC IN FOCUS, 2006
[CITATION] Rethinking the Impact of Immigration on Wages
GIP Ottaviano… - NBER Working Paper, 2006
JW Ambrosini… - Manuscript UC Davis, 2011 - econ.ucdavis.edu
Abstract Using data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS), a panel of Mexican
individuals interviewed in 2002 and 2005, we analyze the characteristics of migrants from
Mexico to the US relative to non-migrates and those who migrated and subsequently ...
[CITATION] Local Characteristics and Growth in Italian Cities and Provinces
P Giovanni - Mimeographed University of California at Berkeley, 1998
[CITATION] The International Dynamics of R&D and Innovation in the Short and the Long Run
B Laura… - 2005 - Working paper 11524. Cambridge: …
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