Immigration, Growth, and Unemployment: Panel VAR Evidence from OECD Countries

de Travail du Centre d ’ Economie de la Sorbonne Immigration , growth and unemployment : Panel VAR evidence from OECD countries

This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ a panel VAR techniques to use a large annual dataset on 22 OECD countries over the period 1987-2009. The VAR approach allows to addresses the endogeneity problem by allowing the endogenous interaction between the variables in the system. Our results provide evidence of migration c...

The Unemployment Impact of Immigration in Oecd Countries

Firm growth and productivity growth: evidence from a panel VAR

This paper offers new insights into the processes of firm growth by applying a reduced-form vector autoregression (VAR) model to longitudinal panel data on French manufacturing firms. We observe the co-evolution of key variables such as growth of employment, sales, and gross operating surplus, as well as growth of multifactor productivity. It seems that employment growth is negatively associate...

Evidence from OECD Countries

In this paper we use a representative consumer model to analyse the equilibrium relation between the transitory deviations from the common trend among consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income, cay, and focus on the implications for both stock returns and housing returns. The evidence based on data for 15 OECD countries shows that when agents expect future stock returns to be higher, the...

Do Tax Structures Affect Aggregate Economic Growth? Empirical Evidence from a Panel of Oecd Countries

/RESUMÉ Do tax structures affect aggregate economic growth? Empirical evidence from a panel of OECD countries This paper examines the relationship between tax structures and economic growth by entering indicators of the tax structure into a set of panel growth regressions for 21 OECD countries, in which both the accumulation of physical and human capital are accounted for. The results of the an...