Calendrier du 25 septembre 2018
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 25/09/2018 de 17:00 à 18:00
LOCHMANN Alexia (PSE)
Cultural attachment and self-selection into migration: Evidence from the Hitler-Mussolini Migration Option Agreement
Du 25/09/2018 de 16:30 à 19:00
ZHURAVSKAYA Ekaterina(PSE)
ZHURAVSKAYA Ekaterina(PSE)
KARADJA Mounir(Uppsala University)
KARADJA Mounir(Uppsala University)
Mass Migration, Cheap Labor, and Innovation
Salle R1-09, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
Paris Migration Seminar
Du 25/09/2018 de 16:30 à 19:00
PSE salle R1.09, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
ZHURAVSKAYA Ekaterina(PSE)
KARADJA Mounir(Uppsala University)
Mass Migration, Cheap Labor, and Innovation
Migration is often depicted as a major problem for struggling developing countries, as they may lose valuable workers and human capital. Yet, its effects on sending regions are ambiguous and depend crucially on local market responses and migrant selection. This paper studies the effects of migration on technological innovation in sending communities during one of the largest migration episodes in human history: the Age of Mass Migration (1850–1913). Using novel historical data on Sweden, where about a quarter of its population migrated, we find that migration caused an increase in technological patents in sending municipalities. To establish causality, we use an instrumental variable design that exploits severe local growing season frost shocks together with within-country travel costs to reach an emigration port. Exploring possible mechanisms, we suggest that increased labor costs, due to low-skilled emigration, induced technological innovation.
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Paris Trade Seminar
Du 25/09/2018 de 14:30 à 16:00
MSE - 106 boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris - Room 6th floor
HARRIGAN James (Virginia)
Techies, Trade, and Skill-Biased Productivity: Firm Level Evidence from France
écrit avec Ariell Reshef, Farid Toubal
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 25/09/2018 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R1-09, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
LIPPMANN Quentin ()
Gender and Lawmaking in Times of Quotas. Evidence from the French Parliament
écrit avec *
This article investigates whether female legislators defend the interests of women more than their male counterparts. I collected data from more than 300,000 amendments discussed in the French Parliament during the 2001-2017 period and combine quasi-experimental variations with text analysis. First, I exploit mixed-gender close races in the Lower House to show that female legislators are twice more likely to initiate
and to co-sponsor gender-related amendments. Second, as compared to other topics, I establish that gender issues constitute the key topic on which women are more active relatively to men, followed by health and child issues. At the other end of the spectrum, men are more involved in war issues. Third, I investigate the mechanisms and provide evidence that the activity of female legislators cannot be entirely explained by constituencies' demographics or political parties' strategies but stems from individual preferences of parliamentarians. Fourth, I replicate these findings in the Upper House using a difference-in-differences strategy that directly exploits the introduction of a gender quota. I obtain similar results.