The FIW Research Centre International Economics and its partne rs kindly invite you to participate in the upcoming Vienna International Ec onomics Seminar (VIES) on the topic: "The Economic Impact of Mass Deportati ons" Abstract: This paper quantifies the effects of large-scale deportation policies on wages\, prices\, and real incomes in the United States. We imp ute the legal status for each worker in the American Community Survey by co mbining detailed individual information with group-level visa records. In 2 024\, 3% of US workers were unauthorized\, but these workers were highly co ncentrated geographically\, by industry\, and by occupation. We then develo p a multi-region\, multi-sector\, multi-occupation quantitative framework w ith heterogeneous workers to study the economic impacts of the removal of u nauthorized workers. We state analytical results that relate region- and oc cupation-specific real wage and sectoral relative price changes to shocks t o the supply of immigrant workers\, observable shares of immigrant workers in occupations and regions\, and combinations of structural elasticities. F ollowing the removal of 50% of unauthorized immigrants\, average native rea l wages decline in every state\, and by 0.3% at the national level. At the same time nationwide native wages in the most immigrant-intensive occupatio ns rise by up to 3.4% in our baseline calibration. The deportation shock in creases the average wages of immigrants \, by 12.2% for the unauthorized wo rkers remaining in the country\, and 3.2% for the authorized. Consumer pric es in the sectors with the highest unauthorized presence – such as Farmin g – rise by about 1% relative to price of the average consumption basket \, while most other sectors experience negligible relative price changes. T he overall cost of living rises by about 0.7% more in the regions hosting t he most unauthorized immigrants\, compared to regions with minimal presence of unauthorized workers. Speaker: Nitya Pandalai-Nayar is an Associate Pro fessor of Economics at The University of Texas at Austin and co-Director of the Empirical Macroeconomics Policy Center of Texas (EMPCT). She received a BA in Economics and Mathematics from Wellesley College (2007)\, an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics (2008) and a PhD from the Un iversity of Michigan at Ann Arbor (2016) followed by the IES post-doc at Pr inceton (2017). She works on topics in international trade and macroeconomi cs\, including the formation of global supply chains and their impact on gl obal synchronization\, the transmission of shocks across countries\, the ad aptation of economies to climate risk\, and the employment impacts of trade . Her research has been published in journals such as the American Economic Review and Review of Economic Studies. Nitya is a research associate of th e National Bureau of Economic Research and an associate editor of the Journ al of International Economics and the IMF Economic Review. Date and Tim e: Tuesday\, October 21\, 17.45-19.00 p.m. Location: University of Vienna\, Faculty of Business\, Economics and Statistics\, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 \, 1090 Vienna\, lecture hall 17\, 2nd floor Language: English Registratio n: Participants are requested to register in advance with Julia Hnidek (jul ia.hnidek@univie.ac.at). The Vienna International Economics Seminar (VIE S) is a joint initiative of CEU\, FIW Research Centre International Economi cs\, Universität Wien\, WIFO\, wiiw\, and WU Vienna. It provides a forum f or the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge academic research in the field of international economics. The seminar is held at irregular interva ls on Tuesdays from 17:45 to 19:15\, alternating each semester between part icipating institutions. From October 2025 to January 2026\, the seminar wil l be hosted by the University of Vienna. Organizers: Gábor Békés (CEU)\, Alejandro Cuñat (Vienna U.)\, Harald Fadinger (Vienna U.)\, Gabriel Felbe rmayr (WIFO\, WU)\, Miklós Koren (CEU)\, Harald Oberhofer (WIFO\, WU)\, Ro bert Stehrer (WIIW). The seminar is currently coordinated by Harald Fadinge r. For more information and the detailed seminar schedule\, please visit: h ttps://sites.google.com/view/viennainternationaleconomicsse/
SUMMARY:VIES: Nitya Pandalai-Nayer „The Economic Impact of Mass Deportations“ ORGANIZER:FIW URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.fiw.ac.at/event/vies-nitya-pandalai-nayer-the-economic-impact-o f-mass-deportations/ TRANSP:OPAQUE BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:DISPLAY TRIGGER;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251020 DESCRIPTION:Reminder for VIES: Nitya Pandalai-Nayer „The Economic Impact of Mass Deportations“ END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR