We estimate empirically the effect of immigration on house prices and residential construction activity in Spain over … the period 1998-2008. This decade is characterized by both a spectacular housing market boom and a stunning immigration … wave. We exploit the variation in immigration across Spanish provinces and construct an instrument based on the historical …

This paper investigates the effects of Spain’s large recent immigration wave on the labor supply of highly skilled … native women. We hypothesize that female immigration led to an increase in the supply of affordable household services, such … family responsibilities. Our evidence indicates that over the last decade immigration led to an important expansion in the …

In recent years, Spain has received unprecedented immigration flows. Between 2001 and 2006 the fraction of the … (relative to population), immigration increased by 24% the number of high school dropouts while only increasing college … high immigration regions. Disaggregating by industry, the absorption operated through large increases in the share of low …

This paper analyzes the political economy of immigration when the salient electoral issue is the level of immigrants … and the relevant immigration policy is the expenditure in immigration control. We consider that immigration affects voters … endogenously determined at equilibrium. At equilibrium, parties propose different levels of immigration, located to the left and to …

, Spain is of particular interest as a result of the specific regional NHS decentralisation that started in the early 1980’s …

history. Philip II of Spain entered into hundreds of contracts whose value and due date depended on verifiable, exogenous …

Spain). Second, by considering the influence of unobserved heterogeneity in the estimation of the effect of our (carefully … strong impact on labour market decisions in Spain. Unemployment regulations are shown to be particularly influential for … especially interesting instance: the reform of early retirement provisions undertaken in Spain in 2002. We use a difference …