The labor market impact of immigration in Western Germany in the 1990s
In this article we estimate the wage and employment effects of recent immigration in Western Germany. Using administrative data for the period 1987-2001 and a labor-market equilibrium model, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990s had very little adverse effects on native wages and on their employment levels. Instead, it had a sizeable adverse employment effect on previous immigrants as well as a small adverse effect on their wages. These asymmetric results are partly driven by a higher degree of substitution between old and new immigrants in the labor market and in part by the rigidity of wages in less than flexible labor markets. In a simple counter-factual experiment we show that in a world of perfect wage flexibility and no unemployment insurance the wage-bill loss of old immigrants would be much smaller.
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2010
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Authors: | D'Amuri, Francesco ; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. ; Peri, Giovanni |
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European Economic Review. - Elsevier, ISSN 0014-2921. - Vol. 54.2010, 4, p. 550-570
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Keywords: | Immigration Wages Labor market rigidities Employment |
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