How Immigrants Helped EU Labor Markets to Adjust during the
Great Recession

J 2016

How Immigrants Helped EU Labor Markets to Adjust during the Great Recession

GUZI, Martin a Martin KAHANEC

Základní údaje

Originální název

How Immigrants Helped EU Labor Markets to Adjust during the Great Recession

Autoři

GUZI, Martin (703 Slovensko, domácí) a Martin KAHANEC (703 Slovensko, garant)

Vydání

IZA Discussion Paper, 2016, 2365-9793

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

50200 5.2 Economics and Business

Stát vydavatele

Německo

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14560/16:00088519

Organizační jednotka

Ekonomicko-správní fakulta

Klíčová slova česky

immigrant worker, labor supply, skilled migration, labor shortage, wage regression, Great Recession

Klíčová slova anglicky

immigrant worker- labor supply- skilled migration- labor shortage- wage regression- Great Recession

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam

Změněno: 26. 2. 2018 15:05, Mgr. Martin Guzi, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in responding to changing sectoral, occupational, and spatial shortages in the labor market. In this paper, we study the relative responsiveness to labor shortages by immigrants from various origins, skills and tenure in the country vis-a-vis the natives, and how it varied over the business cycle during the Great Recession. We show that immigrants in general have responded to changing labor shortages across EU member states, occupations and sectors more fluidly than natives. This effect is especially significant for low-skilled immigrants from the new member states or with the medium number of years since immigration, as well as with high-skilled immigrants with relatively few (1-5) or many (11+) years since migration. The relative responsiveness of some immigrant groups declined during the crisis years (those from Europe outside the EU or with eleven or more years since migration), whereas other groups of immigrants became particularly fluid during the Great Recession, such as those from new member states. Our results suggest immigrants may play an important role in labor adjustment during times of asymmetric economic shocks, and support the case for well-designed immigration policy and free movement of workers within the EU. Paper provides new insights into the functioning of the European Single Market and the roles various immigrant groups play for its stabilization through labor adjustment during times of uneven economic development across sectors, occupations, and countries.

Návaznosti

GA15-17810S, projekt VaV

Název: Po oponě: empirické studie migrace v tranzitivních ekonomikách

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Po oponě: empirické studie migrace v tranzitivních ekonomikách

Citovat

GUZI, Martin a Martin KAHANEC. How Immigrants Helped EU Labor Markets to Adjust during the Great Recession. IZA Discussion Paper. 2016, roč. 2016, č. 10443, s. 1-27. ISSN 2365-9793.

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GUZI, Martin a Martin KAHANEC. How Immigrants Helped EU Labor Markets to Adjust during the Great Recession. \textit{IZA Discussion Paper}. 2016, roč.~2016, č.~10443, s.~1-27. ISSN~2365-9793.

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