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Title: Immigrants, Labor Market Dynamics and Adjustment to Shocks in the Euro Area

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2018

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DOI: 10.3386/w25091

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Abstract: We analyze the role of labor mobility in cushioning labor demand shocks in the Euro Area. We find that foreign born workers’ mobility is strongly cyclical, while this is not the case for natives. Foreigners’ higher population to employment elasticity reduces the variation of overall employment rates over the business cycle: thanks to them, the impact of a one standard deviation change in employment on employment rates decreases by 6 per cent at the country level and by 7 per cent at the regional level. Additionally, we compare Euro Area mobility to that of another currency union, the US. We find that the population to employment elasticity estimated for foreign-born persons is similar in the Euro Area and the US, while EA natives are definitely less mobile across countries than US natives are across states in response to labor demand shocks. This last result confirms that in the Euro Area there is room for improving country specific shocks absorption through higher labor mobility. It also suggests that immigration helped labor market adjustments.

Url: http://www.nber.org/papers/w25091.pdf

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Authors: Basso, Gaetano; D'Amuri, Francesco; Peri, Giovanni

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Publication Number: 25091

Institution: National Bureau of Economic Research

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Publisher Location: Cambridge, MA

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration

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