The effect of immigration on the labor market performance of native-born workers: some evidence for Spain

Carrasco, Raquel; Jimeno, Juan F.; Ortega, Arantxa

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“…These authors present descriptive evidence suggesting that, in raw terms, female immigrants are paid less than nationals and enjoy worse working conditions. 4 In addition, there are also studies on the effect on immigration on natives' labor market outcomes (Carrasco et al, 2008;Amuedo-Dorantes and De la Rica, 2009;González and Ortega, 2011), finding, in general, that immigration has not affected negatively native employment perspectives or wages. of access to the labour market for those people looking for a job; the second, once employed, derives from the risk of earning a lower wage for otherwise equal observable characteristics.…”

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Raining stones?: Female immigrants in the Spanish labour market

Antón¹,

Bustillo

Carrera

2012

Estudios de Economía

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Raining stones?: Female immigrants in the Spanish labour market

Antón¹,

Bustillo

Carrera

2012

Estudios de Economía

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“…A few studies point out the small impact of immigration on the wages of Spanish natives (see Amuedo-Dorantes and De la Rica (2008), González and Ortega (2007), and Carrasco et al (2008)). Yet, these results must be taken with caution given the data limitations.…”

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Complements or substitutes? Task specialization by gender and nativity in Spain

Amuedo‐Dorantes

Rica

2011

Labour Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E S ABSTRACT Complements or Substitutes? Task Specialization by Gender and Nativity in Spain *Learning about the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives is a topic of major concern for immigrant-receiving countries. There exists an extensive literature evaluating the impact of immigration on the employment and wages of natives in the U.S. Yet, despite the significant degree of occupational segregation by gender regardless of workers' origin, the literature has traditionally treated male and female immigrants as a homogenous group when examining the impact of immigration on native workers. Instead, using data from Spain, where the immigrant population has risen from 4 percent to 10 percent of the population within a decade, we allow for male and female foreign-born workers to have distinct impacts on the employment patterns of native men and women. This proves to be important as foreign-born workers only seem to have a significant impact on the employment pattern of native workers of the same sex. Furthermore, foreign-born male (female) workers do not appear to be perfect substitutes of similarly skilled native male (female) workers, which may help explain the null or small impacts of immigration on native employment and wages. Instead, immigration appears to have affected the task specialization and occupational distribution of natives of the same gender. IntroductionThe impact of immigration on the host country's labor market is a topic of major concern for many immigrant-receiving nations. There is a large and growing literature on the consequences of migration on the employment and wages of native workers in the U.S. (see Borjas (1994Borjas ( , 1995Borjas ( , 1999Borjas ( , 2003Borjas ( , 2005, Borjas and Katz (2007), Card (1990, 2001, 2005 We first find that, owing to occupational segregation by gender, the impact of immigrant men on the occupational distribution of native women is negligible, just as the impact of immigrant women is insignificant on the occupational distribution of native men.Secondly, foreign-born male (female) workers do not appear to be perfect substitutes of similarly skilled native male (female) workers, which may help explain the null or small impacts of immigration on native employment and wages. Instead, immigration appears to have affected the task specialization and occupational distribution of natives. Spe...

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“…In both cases she estimates a positive impact of immigration on Israelis' wages, although the estimates from aggregated data are not statistically significant. Carrasco, Jimeno and Ortega (2008) adopt a methodology similar to Borjas (2003), where the different labour markets are defined as education-gender-and experience cells, to Spain. They fail to find any significant effect of immigration on average wages.…”

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Labour market impact of immigration

2018

How Immigrants Contribute to Developing Countries' Economies

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Non-Technical AbstractIn the first part of this paper, we present a stylised model of the labour market impact of immigration. We then discuss mechanisms through which an economy can adjust to immigration: changes in factor prices, output mix and production technology. In the second part, we explain the problems of empirically estimating how immigration affects labour market outcomes of the resident population and review some strategies to address these. We then summarise some recent empirical studies for the UK and other countries. We conclude with an outlook of what we believe are important avenues for future research. In the first part of this paper, we present a stylised model of the labour market impact of immigration. We then discuss mechanisms through which an economy can adjust to immigration: changes in factor prices, output mix and production technology. In the second part, we explain the problems of empirically estimating how immigration affects labour market outcomes of the resident population and review some strategies to address these. We then summarise some recent empirical studies for the UK and other countries. We conclude with an outlook of what we believe are important avenues for future research.

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The effect of immigration on the labor market performance of native-born workers: some evidence for Spain

Cited by 158 publications

References 16 publications

Raining stones?: Female immigrants in the Spanish labour market

Raining stones?: Female immigrants in the Spanish labour market

Complements or substitutes? Task specialization by gender and nativity in Spain

Labour market impact of immigration

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