The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in … responsiveness to labor shortages by immigrants from various origins, skills and tenure in the country vis-à-vis the natives, and how … it varied over the business cycle during the Great Recession. We show that immigrants in general have responded to …

The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in … responsiveness to labor shortages by immigrants from various origins, skills and tenure in the country vis-à-vis the natives, and how … it varied over the business cycle during the Great Recession. We show that immigrants in general have responded to …

do immigrants fare with respect to wages, employment, and occupational choices; are immigrants in competition with the … has not taken place to a full extent. Overall, immigrants hardly affect the wages and employment levels of natives, and … natives, and do they harm or improve the labour market situation of natives; does the presence of immigrants alter the …

This paper assesses how new immigrants to Spain fare in the country's labor market, evaluating the conditions under … Labor Force Survey data from 2000 through 2011, we find that immigrants who arrived before the 2008 recession had little … skyrocketed. Immigrants' individual characteristics had a limited effect on their employment trajectories. Although many …

Immigrants' employment status has worsened during the Great Recession in Spain. How much of this worsening is due to … compare the employment trajectories of different cohorts of immigrants and natives and find that those who arrived before the … work as Spanish unemployment rates skyrocketed. In addition, although many immigrants who arrived in Spain between 2000 and …

In this paper, we analyse differences in the cyclical pattern of employment and wages of immigrants and natives for two … large immigrant receiving countries, Germany and the UK. We show that, despite large differences in their immigrant … populations, there are similar and significant differences in cyclical responses between immigrants and natives in both countries …

This article studies the responses of real wages and labour market flows of immigrants in Spain for the period between ….85% drop in real wages for natives and immigrants, respectively. However, these differences only occur among low-tenure workers … for immigrants and natives over the long Spanish economic expansion and the sharp contraction. During the expansion, 1999 …