Bentolila, Samuel; Dolado, Juan José; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2007
flatter. We argue that this favorable evolution is largely due to the huge rise in the immigration rate, from 1% of the … population in 1994 to 9.3% in 2006. We derive a New Keynesian Phillips curve accounting for the effects of immigration, a … estimate this curve for Spain since 1980 and find that while the fall in unemployment over the last 8 years comes along with an …