Does immigration increase labour market flexibility?

Røed, Marianne; Schøne, Pål

doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2012.05.008

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“…tives (Borjas, 2001;Røed and Schøne, 2012;Schündeln, 2007). We also find that districts with high inflows of expellees between 1950 and 1961 tended to experience faster sectoral change.…”

Section: Medium-and Long-run Effectssupporting

confidence: 49%

“…Using German micro data, Schündeln estimates that the unobserved costs of moving between German states are about 2.7 times larger for natives than they are for immigrants. Røed and Schøne (2012) analyze the sensitivity of immigrants and refugees to regional labor market disparities in Norway. They distinguish between the settlement pattern of newly arrived immigrants, their subsequent regional mobility during their stay in Norway, and their eventual exit to abroad.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Immigration and structural change: Evidence from post-war Germany

Braun

Kvasnicka

2014

Journal of International Economics

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Section: Medium-and Long-run Effectssupporting

confidence: 49%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Immigration and structural change: Evidence from post-war Germany

Braun

Kvasnicka

2014

Journal of International Economics

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“…As a result, skill shortages, and the resulting wage premia, should influence immigrants' decision as to where to locate in the destination state or region more than they influence natives. Existing studies have confirmed this outcome in the US labor market (Borjas, ), in Spain (Amuedo‐Dorantes and de la Rica, , who use a measure of employment prospects rather than wages), in Norway (Røed and Schøne ), and in the UK (Dustmann, Frattini and Preston, ). However, the immigrants’ responsiveness to skill shortages (and thus their spatial and occupational mobility) may differ across countries’ economic, institutional, and policy contexts, as is suggested by e.g.…”

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confidence: 72%

How Immigration Grease Is Affected by Economic, Institutional, and Policy Contexts: Evidence from EU Labor Markets

Guzi¹,

Kahanec²,

Kureková³

2018

Kyklos

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Theoretical arguments and previous country-level evidence indicate that immigrants are more fluid than natives in responding to changing labor shortages across countries, skill-groups or industries. The diversity across EU member states enables us to test this hypothesis across various institutional, economic and policy contexts. Drawing on the EU LFS and EU SILC datasets we study the relationship between residual wage premia as a measure of labor shortages in different skill-industry-country cells and the shares of migrants and natives working in these cells. We find that immigrants' responsiveness to labor market shortages exceeds that of natives in the EU15, in particular in member states with higher unemployment rates, higher levels of (recent) immigration, and more open immigration and integration policies; but also those with barriers to citizenship acquisition or family reunification. Whereas higher welfare expenditures seem to exert a lock-in effect, a comparison across different types of welfare states indicates that institutional complementarities neutralize that effect. JEL Classification:J15, J24, J61, J68

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“…As Scott (2013) and Anderson and Ruhs (2010) have emphasised, few if any businesses will interpret increased labour immigration as a mechanism favouring the intensification of workplace regimes and exerting downward pressure on wages and conditions for employees, migrant and non-migrant alike. The role of immigration in facilitating the escalation of 'flexible' labour market structures, at various levels of the occupational hierarchy, is an issue that merits much more attention than it has received to date (Røed and Schøne, 2012;Ruhs, 2006;Castles and Kosack, 2010).…”

Section: Discussion: Re-thinking 'Elite' Voices In Migration Researchmentioning

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The Political Economy of Immigration Policy: The Example of Scotland

McCollum¹,

Tindal²,

Findlay³

2016

Scottish Affairs

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The inward mobility of labour can serve as a driver of economic growth and the immigration policies of many countries are orientated towards this end. However immigration is also a contentious issue, with the general public often displaying hostility towards liberal immigration policies. The compromises between economic and political considerations that states make when developing immigration policy are poorly theorised in academic literature. This study contributes to conceptual understandings of the voices of 'elites' in the politicaleconomy of immigration policy through a critical interrogation of the narratives and preferences of employers in the context of the Scottish constitutional change debate.

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Does immigration increase labour market flexibility?

Cited by 32 publications

References 16 publications

Immigration and structural change: Evidence from post-war Germany

Immigration and structural change: Evidence from post-war Germany

How Immigration Grease Is Affected by Economic, Institutional, and Policy Contexts: Evidence from EU Labor Markets

The Political Economy of Immigration Policy: The Example of Scotland

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