Immigrants' responsiveness to labor market conditions and its implications on regional disparities
Subtitle: evidence from Spain
By: by Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Sara de la Rica.
Contributors: Rica, Sara de la
Series: Discussion paper ;; no. 1557; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) ;; no. 1557
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Alien labor -- Spain; Labor market -- Spain; Spain -- Economic conditions -- 1975- -- Regional disparities
Description: "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"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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