This paper provides an approximation to the labor market effects of
immigrants in Spain, a country where labor market institutions and immigration
policy exhibit some peculiarities, during the second half of the 1990s, the period in
which immigration flows accThis paper provides an approximation to the labor market effects of
immigrants in Spain, a country where labor market institutions and immigration
policy exhibit some peculiarities, during the second half of the 1990s, the period in
which immigration flows accelerated. By using alternative data sets, we estimate
both the impact of legal and total immigration flows on the employment rates and
wages of native workers, accounting for the possible occupational and geographical
mobility of immigrants and native-born workers. Using different samples
and estimation procedures, we have not found a significant negative effect of
immigration on either the employment rates or wages of native workers.[+][-]