NaWaCC

The NaWaCC project

The NaWaCC project is a three-year project funded by the French and the German research agencies (the ANR and the DFG). Its budget amounts to 385,978€. The project started in May 2018 and will end in April 2022.

Summary

France and Germany are two major countries of immigration in Europe. In 2010, foreign-born individuals represented 7.2% and 6.3% of their respective population. Although the economic situation in France and Germany differs a lot in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis (including different dynamics regarding inequality and unemployment) the recent increase in asylum demands and illegal immigration has raised a vivid debate on the strictness of immigration policies in both countries. The economic consequences of immigration, especially for native workers, are at the centre of this debate.

In three scientific work-packages, this project will investigate the impact of immigrant workers on natives’ jobs and wages. We will go beyond the existing literature by investigating why the impact of immigrants varies across countries.

• Work-package 1. Labour market effects of immigrants, task allocation and production strategies
  We will explore the mechanism underlying the labour market effects of immigrants by focusing on task allocation and production strategies within and across firms.

• Work-package 2. Trade integration, immigration and wages: micro mechanisms and aggregate implications
  We will investigate to what extent the impact of immigrants on natives’ wages is conditioned by trade integration. We will devote a special attention to the aggregate consequences of firm-level dynamics.

• Work-package 3. Political determinants of immigration policy toward different groups of immigrants in the European Union
  We will investigate what determines immigration policies toward different types of immigrants across European countries. We will analyse the interplays between immigration policies and labour market outcomes.

Project partnership

Research team funded by the ANR

Main partner organisation: Lille University & LEM-CNRS

Participants:

• Pr. Dr. Jérôme Héricourt – Lille University & LEM-CNRS
• Dr. Clément Nedoncelle – AgroParisTech-INRA
• Pr. Gianluca Orefice – University of Paris-Dauphine - PSL
• Pr. Dr. Giovanni Peri – University of California, Davis & NBER

Research team funded by the DFG

Main partner organisation: Department of Economics at Bielefeld University

Participants:

• Pr. Dr. Giovanni Facchini – University of Nottingham
• Dr. Olivier Godart – Kiel IfW
• Dr. Léa Marchal – Pantheon-Sorbonne University & CES
• Dr. Max Steinhardt – John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies & the FU Berlin
• Pr. Dr. Gerald Willmann – Bielefeld University & Kiel IfW

Other project participants:

• Dr. Amandine Aubry – Caen University & CREM
• Martín Valdez Quintero – Bielefeld University
• Giulia Sabbadini – Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
• Dr. Filippo Santi – Bielefeld University

Publication et working papers

• Léa Marchal and Clément Nedoncelle. (2019) Immigrants, Occupations and Firm Export Performance. Review of International Economics, 27(3): 1480-1509. Open access paper & Online appendix.

• Léa Marchal and Giulia Sabbadini. Import Competition, Firms’ Performance and Immigrant Workers. Working paper.

• Amandine Aubry, Jérôme Héricourt, Léa Marchal, Clément Nedoncelle. Does Immigration Affect Wages? A Meta-Analysis. Working paper.

Events

Upcoming events

• Final meeting of the project partners planned in April 2022.

Past events

• Summer 2021: Giulia Sabbadini visited Pantheon-Sorbonne University (CES).

• June 8-10, 2021: The NaWaCC project organizes an invited session on migration economics at the AFSE 2021 in Lille. Guests speakers of the NaWaCC project: Léa Marchal & Giovanni Peri

• August 24-28, 2020: Léa Marchal visited the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

• February 18, 2020: Léa Marchal presented a paper co-authored with Giulia Sabbadini and titled “Import competition, firms’ growth and immigrant workers” at the ERMEES Seminar in Strasbourg.

• February, 2020: Giulia Sabbadini presented a paper co-authored with Léa Marchal and titled “Import competition, firms’ growth and immigrant workers” at the GSEM-IHEID PhD Day in Geneva.

• January 30, 2020: Amandine Aubry presented a paper co-authored with Jérôme Héricourt, Léa Marchal and Clément Nedoncelle and titled “Immigration and wages: micro mechanisms and aggregate implications” at the LEM internal seminar in Lille.

• January 29, 2020: Giulia Sabbadini presented a paper co-authored with Léa Marchal and titled “Import competition, firms’ growth and immigrant workers” at a research workshop on Challenges to the Global Trading System in Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland.

• January 27, 2020: Léa Marchal presented a paper co-authored with Giulia Sabbadini and titled “Import competition, firms’ growth and immigrant workers” at the RITM Economics Lunch Seminar in Paris Sud.

• September 12-14, 2019: Giulia Sabbadini presented a paper co-authored with Léa Marchal and titled “Import competition, firms’ growth and immigrant workers” at the ETSG 2019 in Bern.

• July 1-12, 2019: Amandine Aubry, Jérôme Héricourt and Clément Nedoncelle visited the Kiel Institute.

• May 21-23, 2019: Léa Marchal visited Lille University & LEM-CNRS.

• December 13-14, 2018: Miguel Cardoso from Brock University presented a paper titled “Accounting for Foreign-born Employees in a Firm’s Decision to Export” at the Kiel-Aarhus workshop.

• December 5-11, 2018: Giulia Sabbadini from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) visited the Kiel IfW.

• October 11-12, 2018: Léa Marchal presented at the QICSS International Conference 2018 on Immigration’s Impact, Immigrant’s outcomes: New Results Using Business and Social Data a paper titled “Immigrants and firm export performance across destinations”.

• September 21, 2018: Ding Xuan Ng from Johns Hopkins University presented a paper titled “Technological Unemployment and Occupational Mobility” at the Kiel IfW.

• September 3-7, 2018: Jérôme Héricourt & Clément Nedoncelle visited the Kiel IfW. Jérôme Héricourt presented a paper titled “International Transport costs: New Findings from modeling additive costs” co-authored with Guillaume Daudin and Lise Patureau.

• July 8-14, 2018: Gianluca Orefice visited the University of California, Davis.

• June 28, 2018: Kick-start meeting at Lille University & LEM-CNRS.

Contact

For any question concerning the NaWaCC project, please contact Léa Marchal: lea[.]marchal[at]univ[-]paris1[.]fr