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来源类型 | Discussion paper |
规范类型 | 论文 |
来源ID | DP3196 |
DP3196 Protective or Counter-Productive? European Labour Market Institutions and the Effect of Immigrants on EU Natives | |
Josh Angrist; Adriana D. Kugler | |
发表日期 | 2002-02-20 |
出版年 | 2002 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | We estimate the effect of immigrant flows on native employment in Western Europe, and then ask whether the employment consequences of immigration vary with institutions that affect labour market flexibility. Reduced flexibility may protect natives from immigrant competition in the near term, but our theoretical framework suggests that reduced flexibility is likely to increase the negative impact of immigration on equilibrium employment. In models without interactions, OLS estimates for a panel of European countries in the 1980s and 1990s show small, mostly negative immigration effects. To reduce bias from the possible endogeneity of immigration flows, we use the fact that many immigrants arriving after 1991 were refugees from the Balkan wars. An IV strategy based on variation in the number of immigrants from former Yugoslavia generates larger though mostly insignificant negative estimates. We then estimate models allowing interactions between the employment response to immigration and institutional characteristics including business entry costs. These results, limited to the sample of native men, generally suggest that reduced flexibility increases the negative impact of immigration. Many of the estimated interaction terms are significant, and imply a significant negative effect on employment in countries with restrictive institutions. |
主题 | Labour Economics |
关键词 | Immigrant absorption European unemployment Labour market flexibility Entry costs |
URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp3196 |
来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/532224 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Josh Angrist,Adriana D. Kugler. DP3196 Protective or Counter-Productive? European Labour Market Institutions and the Effect of Immigrants on EU Natives. 2002. |
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