Immigration and Prices

By S. Lach. Journal of Political Economy, 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Marketing

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The Effect of Refugee Inflows on Host Communities (2010, unknown): “Recent work by Lach (2007) finds that the movement of refugees from the former Soviet Union to Israel in the 1990s resulted in falling prices and attributes this effect to greater price sensitivity among immigrants, who have not established the store and brand allegiance of the native population…”
Do refugee camps help or hurt hosts? The case of Kakuma, Kenya (2018, background): “5See Card (1990), Lach (2007), Cortes (2008) among others. national rural averages of 78 and 16% (Table B1).6 Economic livelihood in Turkana is significantly less dependent on agriculture and more reliant upon livestock than in Kenya on average (Table B1).”
The Impact of Weather Anomalies on Migration in sub-Saharan Africa (2012, background): “For example, it has been established that migrants move with their demand and can affect consumer prices [83,53] as well as the profitability of locally provided goods and services.”
Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of US Firms (2014, unknown): “[43] Lach, Saul, "Immigration and Prices", Journal of Political Economy 115:4 (2007), 548-587.”
The labour market impact of immigration (2008, background): “on prices see Lach (2007), Cortes (2008), Frattini (2008).”
The Economic Consequences of the International Migration of Labor (2008, unknown): “In 2000, per capita GDP in Mexico was $9700 compared with $34,500 in the United States (all monetary figures discussed in this section are in 2000 U.S. dollars and adjusted for purchasing power parity). Although the income gain from leaving Mexico for the United States is likely to be large, it is s”
Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey (2011, background): “Recent meta-surveys by Longhi, Nijkamp and Poot (2005, 2008) and Okkerse (2008) found comparable, small effects across many studies.”
The impact of forced displacement on host communities: A review of the empirical literature in economics (2019, methodology): “Exploiting city level variation in inflows and using a simple differenceapproach with data from 1990, Lach (2007) finds a negative impact on prices in the short-run, which does not seem to be caused by the increased number of consumers (size effect) but by the high price elasticity and low search…”
The analytics of the wage effect of immigration (2009, unknown): “16Recent studies of the price effect of immigration include Lach (2007), Cortes (2008), and Saiz (2007).”
IMMIGRATION AND WAGES: EVIDENCE FROM CONSTRUCTION * (2012, unknown): “In this, we follow up on recent studies of immigration and prices, such as Lach (2007) and Cortes (2008), and show that price increases within the construction sector were significantly lower for services that saw large increases in immigrant employment than for services with no or small changes in…”
The Economic Impact of Syrian Refugees on Host Countries: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Turkey (2016, result): “The main finding is that consumer prices have declined as a consequence of refugee inflows in the hosting region—which is consistent with the main consensus in the literature—see, e.g., (Lach 2007) and (Cortes 2008).”
Immigration and prices: quasi-experimental evidence from Syrian refugees in Turkey (2016, unknown): “Lach (2007) uses massive immigrant flows from Russia to Israel in 1990 as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of immigration on prices. He finds that a one percentage point increase in the immigrant-to-native ratio leads to a 0.5 percentage point decline in consumer prices. Based on the obse”