Calendrier du 13 octobre 2021
Paris Migration Seminar
Du 13/10/2021 de 17:30 à 18:30
on line
LEBOW Jeremy (Duke University)
Immigration and Occupational Downgrading in Colombia.
Migrants around the world are often over-educated in their occupation relative to natives. In this paper, I study the effect of migrant occupational downgrading on native economic outcomes in the context of Venezuelan mass migration to Colombia. Using variation across 79 metropolitan areas, I estimate a CES model of labor demand with imperfect substitutability between migrants and natives, and I develop a method to incorporate migrant downgrading into this framework. I find that downgrading has large consequences for hourly wages of less educated natives, driven by high migrant-native substitutability in low-skill jobs and low substitutability across education groups, both of which may be more common in the developing country setting. In a counterfactual in which I reallocate migrants to compete within their education group, there are substantial reductions in inequality and increases in total output. The results highlight the importance of policies to reduce migrant downgrading, especially given the increasing global prevalence of large push-factor migration waves, which are more likely to result in migrant downgrading and disproportionately affect developing countries.
Development Economics Seminar
Du 13/10/2021 de 16:30 à 18:00
Salle R2.21, Campus Jourdan
STRAUB Stéphane (TSE)
Decentralization in Indonesia and Local Outcomes. Estimating Spending Efficiency
écrit avec with Jonas Gathen, Toulouse School of Economics, Vitalijs Jascisens, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
We analyze Indonesia’s big-bang decentralization, which in the early 2000s translated into massive transfers of resources to local districts. Using the non-linearity of the allocation rule to circumvent the potential endogeneity that arises when regressing local outcomes on district revenues, we start by answering two questions. First, how does the level and composition of local government spending respond to additional revenues? Second, given this spending response, what is the impact on development outcomes of households and firms? Next, we use these results to perform structural estimates of the efficiency of spending across three categories of outcomes, namely infrastructure, health, and education, and evaluate its district-level determinants
Economic History Seminar
Du 13/10/2021 de 12:00 à 14:00
Salle R1.14,Campus Jourdan
SGARD Jérôme (Sciences Po)
La Crise de la Dette des Années 1980: une histoire orale