Immigrants Responsiveness to Labor Market Conditions
Data(s) |
06/02/2012
06/02/2012
01/05/2005
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Resumo |
Using data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey (Encuesta de Población Activa) from 1999 through 2004, we explore the role of regional employment opportunities in explaining the increasing immigrant flows of recent years despite the limited internal mobility on the part of natives. Subsequently, we investigate the policy question of whether immigration has helped reduced unemployment rate disparities across Spanish regions by attracting immigrant flows to regions offering better employment opportunities. Our results indicate that immigrants choose to reside in regions with larger employment rates and where their probability of finding a job is higher. In particular, and despite some differences depending on their origin, immigrants appear generally more responsive than their native counterparts to a higher likelihood of informal, self, or indefinite employment. More importantly, insofar the vast majority of immigrants locate in regions characterized by higher employment rates, immigration contributes to greasing the wheels of the Spanish labor market by narrowing regional unemployment rate disparities. |
Identificador |
1988-088X http://hdl.handle.net/10810/6743 RePEc:ehu:dfaeii:200503 |
Idioma(s) |
eng |
Publicador |
University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II |
Relação |
DFAEII 2005.03 |
Direitos |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
Palavras-Chave | #international migration #regional disparities #immigrant location |
Tipo |
info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper |