Venice Summer Institute 2022: The Role of Firms in Migration Research
San Servolo, Venice, Italy
Scientific Organizers: Dr. Yvonne Giesing and Professor Giovanni Peri
While often a regional or national approach has been used to analyze the economic effects of migration, recent evolutions have shown that the role of firms is extremely important in better understanding this phenomenon. On many occasions, it is firms choosing the migrant workers and initiating the migration opportunities. The effects of migration on wages, innovation and productivity take place, in large part, within firms. Different immigration policies affect the type and scope of immigration, which will have an impact on firms. At the same time, policies that affect firms (local incentives, tax breaks, priority rules, work permit rules) affect their willingness to hire immigrants. In addition, migrant workers create connections between the host firm and their countries of origin, which can stimulate trade, FDI, and technological diffusion.
This workshop will bring together young and established scholars doing groundbreaking theoretical and empirical research on these topics. The important implications of this research can help improve our understanding of firm performance, inequality and may help design more efficient and economically driven immigration policies.
Keynote speakers:
Thomas Chaney, University of Southern California
Ethan G. Lewis, Dartmouth College
Program
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Monday, 27 June 2022
09:00 – 09:15 Welcome & Introduction Session 1
09:15 – 10:00
Keynote Lecture:
Opening the Door to Low Skill Immigration: Policy-Relevant Impact Estimates
ETHAN LEWIS10:00 – 10:30
Emigration and Entrepreneurial Drain
Massimo Anelli, Gaetano Basso, GIUSEPPE IPPEDICO (University of California – Davis), Giovanni Peri10:30 – 11:00
Firms Left Behind: Emigration and Firm Productivity
Yvonne Giesing, NADZEYA LAURENTSYEVA (LMU Munich)11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
Session 2
11:30 – 12:00
Moving to look or looking to move? The role of job search in migration decisions
MARIA BALGOVA (IZA - Institute of Labor Economics)12:00 – 12:30
The Labour Demand Response to Supply Shocks: The Indirect Effect of Immigration
RAMA DASI MARIANI (University of Rome "Tor Vergata")12:30 – 13:00
Human Mobility and the Globalization of Knowledge Production: Causal Evidence from Multinational Enterprises
SARA SIGNORELLI (University of Amsterdam), Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury, James Sappenfield13:00 – 14:00
Lunch
Session 3
14:00 – 14:30
Are FDI restrictions inducing international migration? Evidence from Indonesia
Andrea Cinque, ANNA GASTEN (University of Goettingen), Krisztina Kis-Katos14:30 – 15:00
When Immigrants Meet Exporters: A Reassessment of the Immigrant-Native Wage Gap
Léa Marchal, Guzman Ourens, GIULIA SABBADINI (Graduate Institute Geneva)15:00 – 15:30 High-Skill Immigration, Offshore R&D, and Firm Dynamics
Jingting Fan, Eunhee Lee, VALERIE SMEETS (Aarhus University15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break Session 4 16:00 – 16:30 Monopsony at Work? The Short- and Long-run Effects of Labor Restrictions on Refugees’ Economic Integration
ANDREAS BEERLI (ETH Zurich)16:30 – 17:00 US Immigration Enforcement Policies and Business Dynamics
Pia Orrenius, MADELINE ZAVODNY (University of North Florida)19:30 Conference Dinner on San Servolo
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Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Session 5 09:00 – 09:45
Keynote Lecture:
The Immigrant Next Door
Exposure, Prejudice, and Altruism
Leonardo Bursztyn, THOMAS CHANEY (University of Southern California, Sciences Po), Aakaash Rao, and Tarek Hassan09:45 – 10:15
How Do Labor Markets Adjust to Immigration? The Role of Firm Heterogeneity in Regional Setting
TOBIAS MÜLLER (University of Geneva), Andrea Ariu, Tuan Nguyen10:15 – 10:45
Immigration and Worker-Firm Matching
Gianluca Orefice, GIOVANNI PERI (University of California- Davis)10:45 – 11:15
Coffee Break
Session 6
11:15 – 11:45
Immigration and Local Business Dynamics. Evidence from U.S. Firms
PARAG MAHAJAN (University of Delaware)11:45 – 12:15
Firm Heterogeneity and the Impact of Immigration: Evidence from German Establishments
NICOLAS MORALES (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond), Agostina Brinatti12:15 – 12:45
The Role of Firms in the Assimilation of Immigrants
SHMUEL SAN (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)Lunch and End of Conference
