During the Great Recession, immigrants reacted to the drop in labour demand in Spain through internal migration or … employment and wage of natives. I use a modified shift-share instrument based on past settlements to claim causality. Employment … effects were driven by increased entries to employment, while wage effects were limited to natives that were already employed …

intended, the overall employment of those affected decreased while their average language proficiency remained largely …

We investigate the effect of immigration on consumer prices in Spain between 1997 and 2013. Using variation across … that immigration has actually reduced consumer prices in Spain. An increase in the share of migrants by 10 percentage …

, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …

employment like labour costs and productivity, the skill level of the population, and demography. Considering that ownership may … be endogenous to (shocks in) employment, we use IV estimation methods. Overall, we find evidence in favour of the Oswald … significant fall in the employment rate by about 0.3 percentage points. Our results underscore the importance of including other …

individuals with temporary employment contracts. This reduction is explained by the decrease in the number of incomers. We also …

and find that a ten-percentage-point increase in the initial conational share lowers employment rates by 3.1 percentage … effect on wages conditional on employment. The employment effect appears to be due to the effect of differences in the …