Immigration and Heterogeneous Labor in Western Germany

Markus Frölich () and Patrick Puhani

No 418, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an application to western Germany it is demonstrated that nonparametric regression is feasible in higher dimensions with only a few thousand observations. In sum, labor markets able to absorb immigrants are characterized by above average age and by professional occupations. On the other hand, labor markets for young workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not recommended for immigration.

Keywords: migration; Wage; rigidity; nonparametric regression; unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 J31 J61 J64 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 55 pages
Date: 2002-01
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Published - published as 'Developing an immigration policy for Germany on the basis of a nonparametric labor market classification' in: Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv /Journal of the German Statistical Society, 2004, 88(1), 1-22

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