Francesc Ortega
Biographic Data
| ID | 3772098 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francesc Ortega |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francesc |
| FAMILY NAME | Ortega |
| SIGNATURE | ORTEGA F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queens College, CUNY |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5779-5711 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 139 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Shattered dreams: The economic impact of eliminating Daca
Since 2012, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has provided temporary relief from deportation and a work permit for undocumented youth. In recent years, DACA renewals have faced slower processing, mounting legal challenges, and the ongoing risk of revocation. We present a novel imputation for immigrant status, which identifies likely DACA recipients, and provide estimates of the income losses stemming from the potential eli…
Multi-Trillion Dollar and Multi-Million Worker Contributions: An Economic Accounting of Birthright Citizenship
Executive Summary With the Trump administration’s recent executive order attempting to eliminate birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to two undocumented or temporary (nonimmigrant visa holder) immigrants, litigators have been actively arguing against the order, with every case in lower courts finding it to be illegal. Consequently, the Supreme Court is hearing the government’s case in 2026. In light of these events, this paper se…
Coping with H-1B Shortages: Firm Performance and Mitigation Strategies
The H-1B visa program allows companies to hire skilled foreign workers. Before 2014, the vast majority of these visas were allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. Since then, the program has been severely oversubscribed and all cap-subject visas have been allocated through lotteries. The authors merged Compustat data with administrative firm-level data on the universe of approved petitions for H-1B visas. Using difference-in-differences and…
The Labour Market Effects of Venezuelan Migration in Ecuador
As of 2019, more than 1.2 million Venezuelans passed through Ecuador and more than 400,000 settled (almost 3 percent of Ecuador’s population). This paper analyzes the location choices of Venezuelan migrants in Ecuador and the labour market consequences of these choices, using data from Ecuador’s labour force survey and mobile phone records on the geographic distribution of Venezuelan migrants. Around half of the migrants live in four cantons (of …
Shoring up economic refugees: Venezuelan migrants in the Ecuadoran labor market
Ecuador became the third largest receiver of the 4.3 million Venezuelans who left their country in the last five years, hosting around 10 per cent of them. Little is known about the characteristics of these migrants and their labor market outcomes. This article fills this gap by analyzing a new large survey (EPEC). On average, Venezuelan workers are highly skilled and have high rates of employment, compared with Ecuadorans. However, their employm…
The Labor Market Effects of Venezuelan Migration in Ecuador
As of 2019, more than 1.2 million Venezuelans passed through Ecuador and more than 400,000 settled (almost 3 percent of Ecuador's population). This paper analyzes the location choices of Venezuelan migrants in Ecuador and the labor market consequences of these choices, using data from Ecuador's labor force survey and mobile phone records on the geographic distribution of Venezuelan migrants. Around half of the migrants live in four cantons (of 22…
Shoring up Economic Refugees: Venezuelan Migrants in the Ecuadoran Labor Market
Hurricanes, flood risk and the economic adaptation of businesses
We use administrative data containing all business establishments in New York City to analyze how businesses reacted to flooding in the context of Hurricane Sandy (October 2012). We find that flooding led to reductions in employment (of about 4%) and average wages (of about 2%) among the affected businesses. The effects were substantially larger and more persistent in some parts of the city (Brooklyn and Queens) than others (Manhattan). Heterogen…
Rising sea levels and sinking property values: Hurricane Sandy and New York’s housing market
The Effects of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals on the Educational Outcomes of Undocumented Students
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is the first large-scale immigration policy to affect undocumented immigrants in the United States in decades and offers eligible undocumented youth temporary relief from deportation as well as renewable work permits. Although DACA has improved the economic conditions and mental health of undocumented immigrants, we do not know how DACA improves the social mobility of undocumented immigrants through i…
Immigration and Housing Booms: Evidence From Spain
We provide causal estimates of the effect of immigration on house prices and construction activity in Spain over the period 2000–2010. During this period Spain experienced spectacular swings in both immigration and the housing market. Our instrumental‐variables estimates suggest that between 2000 and 2010, immigration led to an average 1.5 percent annual increase in the working‐age population. This was responsible for an annual increase in housin…
The effect of income and immigration policies on international migration
This article makes two contributions to the literature on the determinants of international migration flows. First, we compile a new dataset on annual bilateral migration flows covering 15 OECD destination countries and 120 sending countries for the period 1980–2006. The dataset also contains data on time-varying immigration policies that regulate the entry of immigrants in our destination countries over this period. Second, we present an empiric…
Crossing the border: Self-selection, earnings and individual migration decisions
Immigration Policies and the Ecuadorian Exodus
The Causes and Effects of International Migrations: Evidence from OECD Countries 1980-2005
This paper contains three important contributions to the literature on international migrations. First, it compiles a new dataset on migration flows (and stocks) and on immigration laws for 14 OECD destination countries and 74 sending countries for each year over the period 1980-2005. Second, it extends the empirical model of migration choice across multiple destinations, developed by We use the model to derive a pseudo-gravity empirical specific…
The Decline of the Welfare State: Demography and Globalization
The effect of income and immigration policies on international migration
This article makes two contributions to the literature on the determinants of international migration flows. First, we compile a new dataset on annual bilateral migration flows covering 15 OECD destination countries and 120 sending countries for the period 1980–2006. The dataset also contains data on time-varying immigration policies that regulate the entry of immigrants in our destination countries over this period. Second, we present an empiric…
The Effects of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals on the Educational Outcomes of Undocumented Students
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is the first large-scale immigration policy to affect undocumented immigrants in the United States in decades and offers eligible undocumented youth temporary relief from deportation as well as renewable work permits. Although DACA has improved the economic conditions and mental health of undocumented immigrants, we do not know how DACA improves the social mobility of undocumented immigrants through i…
Crossing the border: Self-selection, earnings and individual migration decisions
Rising sea levels and sinking property values: Hurricane Sandy and New York’s housing market
Shoring up economic refugees: Venezuelan migrants in the Ecuadoran labor market
Ecuador became the third largest receiver of the 4.3 million Venezuelans who left their country in the last five years, hosting around 10 per cent of them. Little is known about the characteristics of these migrants and their labor market outcomes. This article fills this gap by analyzing a new large survey (EPEC). On average, Venezuelan workers are highly skilled and have high rates of employment, compared with Ecuadorans. However, their employm…
Coping with H-1B Shortages: Firm Performance and Mitigation Strategies
The H-1B visa program allows companies to hire skilled foreign workers. Before 2014, the vast majority of these visas were allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. Since then, the program has been severely oversubscribed and all cap-subject visas have been allocated through lotteries. The authors merged Compustat data with administrative firm-level data on the universe of approved petitions for H-1B visas. Using difference-in-differences and…
Hurricanes, flood risk and the economic adaptation of businesses
We use administrative data containing all business establishments in New York City to analyze how businesses reacted to flooding in the context of Hurricane Sandy (October 2012). We find that flooding led to reductions in employment (of about 4%) and average wages (of about 2%) among the affected businesses. The effects were substantially larger and more persistent in some parts of the city (Brooklyn and Queens) than others (Manhattan). Heterogen…
The Decline of the Welfare State: Demography and Globalization
The Causes and Effects of International Migrations: Evidence from OECD Countries 1980-2005
This paper contains three important contributions to the literature on international migrations. First, it compiles a new dataset on migration flows (and stocks) and on immigration laws for 14 OECD destination countries and 74 sending countries for each year over the period 1980-2005. Second, it extends the empirical model of migration choice across multiple destinations, developed by We use the model to derive a pseudo-gravity empirical specific…
Immigration Policies and the Ecuadorian Exodus
Crossing the border: Self-selection, earnings and individual migration decisions
Immigration and Housing Booms: Evidence From Spain
We provide causal estimates of the effect of immigration on house prices and construction activity in Spain over the period 2000–2010. During this period Spain experienced spectacular swings in both immigration and the housing market. Our instrumental‐variables estimates suggest that between 2000 and 2010, immigration led to an average 1.5 percent annual increase in the working‐age population. This was responsible for an annual increase in housin…
The effect of income and immigration policies on international migration
This article makes two contributions to the literature on the determinants of international migration flows. First, we compile a new dataset on annual bilateral migration flows covering 15 OECD destination countries and 120 sending countries for the period 1980–2006. The dataset also contains data on time-varying immigration policies that regulate the entry of immigrants in our destination countries over this period. Second, we present an empiric…
Rising sea levels and sinking property values: Hurricane Sandy and New York’s housing market
The Effects of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals on the Educational Outcomes of Undocumented Students
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is the first large-scale immigration policy to affect undocumented immigrants in the United States in decades and offers eligible undocumented youth temporary relief from deportation as well as renewable work permits. Although DACA has improved the economic conditions and mental health of undocumented immigrants, we do not know how DACA improves the social mobility of undocumented immigrants through i…
The Labor Market Effects of Venezuelan Migration in Ecuador
As of 2019, more than 1.2 million Venezuelans passed through Ecuador and more than 400,000 settled (almost 3 percent of Ecuador's population). This paper analyzes the location choices of Venezuelan migrants in Ecuador and the labor market consequences of these choices, using data from Ecuador's labor force survey and mobile phone records on the geographic distribution of Venezuelan migrants. Around half of the migrants live in four cantons (of 22…
Shoring up Economic Refugees: Venezuelan Migrants in the Ecuadoran Labor Market
Hurricanes, flood risk and the economic adaptation of businesses
We use administrative data containing all business establishments in New York City to analyze how businesses reacted to flooding in the context of Hurricane Sandy (October 2012). We find that flooding led to reductions in employment (of about 4%) and average wages (of about 2%) among the affected businesses. The effects were substantially larger and more persistent in some parts of the city (Brooklyn and Queens) than others (Manhattan). Heterogen…
Shoring up economic refugees: Venezuelan migrants in the Ecuadoran labor market
Ecuador became the third largest receiver of the 4.3 million Venezuelans who left their country in the last five years, hosting around 10 per cent of them. Little is known about the characteristics of these migrants and their labor market outcomes. This article fills this gap by analyzing a new large survey (EPEC). On average, Venezuelan workers are highly skilled and have high rates of employment, compared with Ecuadorans. However, their employm…
The Labour Market Effects of Venezuelan Migration in Ecuador
As of 2019, more than 1.2 million Venezuelans passed through Ecuador and more than 400,000 settled (almost 3 percent of Ecuador’s population). This paper analyzes the location choices of Venezuelan migrants in Ecuador and the labour market consequences of these choices, using data from Ecuador’s labour force survey and mobile phone records on the geographic distribution of Venezuelan migrants. Around half of the migrants live in four cantons (of …
Coping with H-1B Shortages: Firm Performance and Mitigation Strategies
The H-1B visa program allows companies to hire skilled foreign workers. Before 2014, the vast majority of these visas were allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. Since then, the program has been severely oversubscribed and all cap-subject visas have been allocated through lotteries. The authors merged Compustat data with administrative firm-level data on the universe of approved petitions for H-1B visas. Using difference-in-differences and…
Shattered dreams: The economic impact of eliminating Daca
Since 2012, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has provided temporary relief from deportation and a work permit for undocumented youth. In recent years, DACA renewals have faced slower processing, mounting legal challenges, and the ongoing risk of revocation. We present a novel imputation for immigrant status, which identifies likely DACA recipients, and provide estimates of the income losses stemming from the potential eli…
Multi-Trillion Dollar and Multi-Million Worker Contributions: An Economic Accounting of Birthright Citizenship
Executive Summary With the Trump administration’s recent executive order attempting to eliminate birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to two undocumented or temporary (nonimmigrant visa holder) immigrants, litigators have been actively arguing against the order, with every case in lower courts finding it to be illegal. Consequently, the Supreme Court is hearing the government’s case in 2026. In light of these events, this paper se…
Economics (12 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (11 works) · Geography (8 works) · Demographic economics (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (5 works) · Immigration (5 works) · Earnings (4 works) · Demography (3 works) · Destinations (3 works)