The labor market impact of immigration in Western Germany in the 1990s

被引：134

作者：

D'Amuri, Francesco ^{[3
]}

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. ^{[4
]}

Peri, Giovanni ^{[1
,2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Calif Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA

[2] NBER, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

[3] Univ Essex, ISER, Colchester CO4 3SQ, Essex, England

[4] Bocconi Univ, FEEM, Milan, Italy

来源：

EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW | 2010年 / 54卷 / 04期

关键词：

Immigration; Wages; Labor market rigidities; Employment; MIGRATION;

D O I：

10.1016/j.euroecorev.2009.10.002

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

In this article we estimate the wage and employment effects of recent immigration in Western Germany. Using administrative data for the period 1987-2001 and a labor-market equilibrium model, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990s had very little adverse effects on native wages and on their employment levels. Instead, it had a sizeable adverse employment effect on previous immigrants as well as a small adverse effect on their wages. These asymmetric results are partly driven by a higher degree of substitution between old and new immigrants in the labor market and in part by the rigidity of wages in less than flexible labor markets. In a simple counter-factual experiment we show that in a world of perfect wage flexibility and no unemployment insurance the wage-bill loss of old immigrants would be much smaller. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：550 / 570

页数：21

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