RT Generic
T1 The effect of immigration on the employment opportunities of native-born workers : some evidence for Spain
A1 Carrasco, Raquel
A1 Jimeno, Juan F.
A1 Ortega, Ana Carolina
A2 FEDEA, 
AB Spain is one of the European countries where immigration flows during the lastdecade have increased noticeably. The Spanish labor market institutions and theSpanish immigration policy exhibit some peculiarities which may be relevantwhen analyzing the impact of immigration. This paper provides a firstapproximation to the labor market effects of immigrants in Spain during thesecond half of the 1990s, the period in which immigration flows to Spain haveaccelerated. By using alternative datasets, we estimate both the impact of legal and total immigration flows on the employment rates of native workers, with and without the implications of the 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 the employment rates of native workers. The corresponding estimated elasticity is around -0.17, when considering only legal immigrants, and is not significant when considering both legal and illegal immigrants.
YR 2004
FD 2004-09
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/4812
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/4812
LA eng
DS e-Archivo
RD 19 may. 2024