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Migrants and Economic Performance in the EU15: 1. their allocations across countries, industries and job types 2. their (productivity) growth “impacts” at the sectoral and regional levels FIW Study by M. Landesmann, R. Stehrer and M. Liebensteiner. Migrants and Economic Performance in the EU15:.
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Migrants and Economic Performance in the EU15:1. their allocations across countries, industries and job types2. their (productivity) growth “impacts” at the sectoral and regional levelsFIW Study by M. Landesmann, R. Stehrer and M. Liebensteiner
Migrants and Economic Performance in the EU15: wiiw participated in 3 studies recently: • Alvarez-Plata/Bruecker et al (2008): The impact of East-West migration after EU Enlargement • Migration, Skills and Productivity (2009): Background study for EU (DG Enterprise) Competitiveness Report 2009 • Landesmann, Stehrer, Liebensteiner (2010): FIW Study
Content of the study: Part I: Descriptive Analysis using LFS data Migrant workers in the EU15; their places of origin, their ‘skills’ (educational attainment levels); their allocations across industries and ‘job types’; skills-jobs mismatches; comparisons with ‘domestic’ employees. Part 2: Econometric analysis: Migrants and productivity and output growth LFS data supplemented with industry level (EU-KLEMS) data and regional statistics Migrants’ presence at industry and regional levels and productivity and output growth; the impact of skill structure of migrants; impact of integration policy indicators. Main challenge: causality and endogeneity issues. Unresolved Policy Brief: Focus on Austria relative to EU15: skill composition of migrants; skills-jobs mismatches
Skill Composition of Migrants and of Domestic Workers by Country (%), 2005-07
Skills mismatches of high-skilled workers - Over qualification (Over-/underrepresentation of migrants relatively to domestic workers, averages 2005-07)
Relative over-qualification and correct-qualification of migrants vs. domestic workers, 2005-07
Job matching in low skill jobs:domestic workers and migrants, 2005-2007
Job matching in medium skill jobs:domestic workers and migrants, 2005-2007
Job matching in high skill jobs:domestic workers and migrants, 2005-2007
Austria and its Migrant Labour Force: Comparison with EU15 peers Main policy results from Huber et al (2009) and Landesmann et al (2010): Austria has (comparatively) an unfavourable skill composition of migrants; especially in the context of various skill-biased developments Evidence of under-utilisation of migrants’ skills (‘brain waste’) Austria has a comparatively very low indicator on anti-discrimination policy setting Insufficient use of high-skilled migrants in high-skilled industries and in ‘skill-intensive jobs’ - compared to ‘peer countries’