TY - JOUR
T1 - The immigration-unemployment nexus
T2 - Do education and Protestantism matter?
AU - Madsen, Jakob B.
AU - Andric, Stojanka
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - Using annual data from 1850 to 2010 for Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, and the USA, this paper examines the impact of immigration and the immigrants' educational and cultural background on unemployment. Instruments for 27 emigrating countries are used to deal with the feedback effects from unemployment to immigration. The results show that educated immigrants, in particular, and immigrants from Protestant countries significantly reduce unemployment, while poorly educated and non-Protestant immigrants enhance unemployment.
AB - Using annual data from 1850 to 2010 for Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, and the USA, this paper examines the impact of immigration and the immigrants' educational and cultural background on unemployment. Instruments for 27 emigrating countries are used to deal with the feedback effects from unemployment to immigration. The results show that educated immigrants, in particular, and immigrants from Protestant countries significantly reduce unemployment, while poorly educated and non-Protestant immigrants enhance unemployment.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85014066151&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1093/oep/gpw040
DO - 10.1093/oep/gpw040
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85014066151
SN - 0030-7653
VL - 69
SP - 165
EP - 188
JO - Oxford Economic Papers
JF - Oxford Economic Papers
IS - 1
ER -
