The effect of immigration on the employment opportunities of native-born workers: some evidence for Spain

Juan F Jimeno () and Carolina Ortega
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Raquel Carrasco

UC3M Working papers. Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía

Abstract: Spain is one of the European countries where immigration flows during the last decade have increased noticeably. The Spanish labor market institutions and the Spanish immigration policy exhibit some peculiarities which may be relevant when analyzing the impact of immigration. This paper provides a first approximation to the labor market effects of immigrants in Spain during the second half of the 1990s, the period in which immigration flows to Spain have accelerated. By using alternative datasets, we estimate both the impact of legal and total immigration flows on the employment rates of native workers, accounting for the possible occupationa l and geographical mobility of immigrants and native-born workers. Using different samples and estimation procedures, we have not found a significant negative effect of immigration on the employment rates of native workers. The corresponding estimated elasticity is low, around -0.1, when considering only legal immigrants, and is not significant when considering both legal and illegal immigrants.

Date: 2004-10
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