Automation and Immigrants: Evidence from Local Labour Markets by Anand Chopra

Join us for the latest Applied Economics Research Seminar Series event, Summer Term 2024.

Anand Chopra, from the University of Liverpool Management School, will present this week's seminar on Automation and Immigrants: Evidence from Local Labour Markets. 

Abstract

This paper investigates the role of immigrant mobility as a channel through which local labour markets adjust to automation. Employing a shift-share instrument, we first show that immigrants are more mobile than natives in response to robot adoption. Furthermore, we find that immigrant mobility has a limited impact on equalizing spatial inequalities of native workers. Employment losses resulting from automation among native workers exhibit similarity across both high- and low-immigrant areas. We present evidence suggesting that the diminished inflow of immigrants into more robot-exposed regions, rather than their outflow to other areas, explains the modest mitigating impact.

The seminar will begin with a presentation and will end with a Q and A session.

It will be held in the Economics Common Room at 2pm on Thursday 11 April. This event is open to all levels of study and is also open to the public. To register your place and gain access to the webinar, please contact the seminar organisers.

This event is part of the Applied Economics Research Seminar Series.