whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational …

employment growth. Then, we analyze whether local factors associated in the previous literature with agglomeration economies and …

workers' mobility is strongly cyclical, while this is not the case for natives. Foreigners' higher population to employment … elasticity reduces the variation of overall employment rates over the business cycle: thanks to them, the impact of a one … standard deviation change in employment on employment rates decreases by 6 per cent at the country level and by 7 per cent at …