Protective or counter-productive? Labor market institutions and the effect of immigration on EU natives

We estimate the effect of immigrant flows on native employment in WesternEurope, and then ask whether the employment consequences of immigrationvary with institutions that affect labor market flexibility. Reducedflexibility may protect natives from immigrant competition in the nearterm, but our theoretical framework suggests that reduced flexibility islikely to increase the negative impact of immigration on equilibriumemployment. In models without interactions, OLS estimates for a panel ofEuropean countries in the 1980s and 1990s show small, mostly negativeimmigration effects. To reduce bias from the possible endogeneity ofimmigration flows, we use the fact that many immigrants arriving after1991 were refugees from the Balkan wars. An IV strategy based onvariation in the number of immigrants from former Yugoslavia generateslarger though mostly insignificant negative estimates. We then estimatemodels allowing interactions between the employment response toimmigration and institutional characteristics including business entrycosts. These results, limited to the sample of native men, generallysuggest that reduced flexibility increases the negative impact ofimmigration. Many of the estimated interaction terms are significant,and imply a significant negative effect on employment in countrieswith restrictive institutions.

Síntesi en fase sólida d'oligosacàrids cardioactius

Estudi aproximatiu a la síntesi en fase sòlida de la part glicosídica de la digitoxina, essencial per l’activitat biològica com a reguladora de les propietats farmacocinètiques, i per tant molt important per l’avenç de la química mèdica i bioinorgànica. La metodologia que s’ha seguit inclou: síntesi de la pentosa de partença adequada, a partir de la qual, es van obtindre les unitats de 2,6- didesoxiglicósids; síntesi dels suports polimèrics necessaris per la síntesi en fase sòlida dels compostos objectiu; estudi de diferent tipus de glicosil dadors i activador de tioglicosids, lactols i tricloroacetimidats per la reacció de glicosilació amb el linker. S’ha assolit comprensió i coneixement de la tecnologia associada a la síntesi en fase sòlida, que requereix procediment diferenciat de la síntesi en solució convencional.