The Economics of Immigration 2nd Edition by Cynthia Bansak

Exercise 11

Pick a destination country. Using United Nations data (links below), find the foreign-born stock as a percentage of the total population in that country in 2013. Ortega and Peri (2014) find that a 10 percentage-point difference in the immigrant share leads to a 100 percent increase in income per person (on average). Using this estimate, how much would per capita GDP increase if that country increased their immigrant share by 0.1 percentage points? 1 percentage point? 10 percentage points?