In this page, you can find all my articles. In each of them, there is a link with the article text, except when the copyright is property of some journal and not mine. Moreover, you can also find the abstract of each of them and the list of the different places where each article has been presented (with a link to the slides if I was the presenter). I usually do not present databases and programs in this page, but they are all available upon request.
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“The impact of immigration on productivity” February 2008. CEMFI Working Paper, WP CEMFI 0802. A previous version circulated under the title "The impact of immigration on economic growth".:
This paper provides cross-country macro evidence on the effect of immigration on productivity. It combines panel data with instrumental variables to correct for OLS biases due to reverse causality. In particular, it introduces push-targeting instruments; they constitute a new approach to find dynamic instruments based on gravity equations that are suitable to be used in panel data settings with fixed effects. Another methodological contribution is the aggregation of instruments as a solution to the lack of bilateral migration data. Results suggest a negative impact of immigration on productivity that is partially offset by a positive effect on participation and employment.
Presentations: CEMFI (Madrid), Economic Bureau of the Spanish Prime Minister (Madrid), XXXII Simposio de Análisis Economico (Granada)
"Skilled migration and sending economies. Testing brain drain and brain gain theories". October 2007 (with José Luis Groizard). Previous versions circulated under the titles “Skilled migration and growth. Testing brain drain and brain gain theories”(DEA working papers n.20, Universitat de les Illes Balears) and "Brain drain or brain gain? New empirical evidence":
Traditional models of brain drain stress its negative impact on the welfare and growth of sending economies, while new models introduce the possibility of brain gain through several channels (human capital, remittances, return migration or FDI and trade linkages). We test all these theories by estimating cross-country individual regressions for each channel, and a system of equations to assess the overall effect of brain drain on economic growth. Results suggest a negative effect on human capital stock, negligible on remittances (controlling for total migration) and a positive effect on trade and FDI. The net impact of skilled migration on economic growth remains ambiguous.
Presentations: CNR Working Group meeting (Centro degli Studi Luca d'Agliano, Milan), Bank of Mexico (Mexico D.F.), Universidad de Vigo (Vigo), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Madrid), European Trade Study Group (8th Annual Conference, Vienna), Association of Southern European Economic Theorists (ASSET) Annual Meeting 2006 (Lisbon), XXXI Simposio de Economía Aplicada (Oviedo), Asociación Española de Economía y Finanzas Internacionales (AEEFI) (X Jornadas de Economía Internacional, ICEI, Madrid) , RES Conference 2008 (Warwick)
“Brain drain and Human Capital Formation in Developing Countries. Are there Really Winners”. June 2007 (with José Luis Groizard). DEA working papers n.28, Universitat de les Illes Balears:
We examine the empirical relationship between the migration rate of skilled workers and human capital formation in developing countries. In particular, we revisit Beine, Docquier and Rapoport (2007), who find evidence of an incentive effect. Our results suggest that an incentive effect is weak if not absent, since positive correlation among brain drain and human capital ex-ante is not robust to small changes in the specification.
Ayuda internacional y fuga de cerebros: ¿cómo gestionar los flujos migratorios eficazmente?. February 2005 (with José Luis Groizard) (In Spanish)
‹‹Brain drain››, aid and growth. November 2004 (
with Dr. José Luis Groizard):
This paper incorporates brain drain into the analysis of the effect of foreign aid on growth. While migration tends to grow, until now there were no reliable measures about the extent of the brain drain. We use a new dataset to test the hypothesis that the brain drain is detrimental for growth in a cross section of 112 sending economies. We find that aid policy is effective to reduce the mid-term growth impact of the human capital flight in sending economies.
Presentations: University of Nottingham (Nottingham), Universitat de les Illes Balears (Palma de Mallorca)