How immigrants helped EU labor markets to adjust during the Great Recession

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14560%2F17%3A00094929" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14560/17:00094929 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJM-08-2017-0205" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJM-08-2017-0205</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJM-08-2017-0205" target="_blank" >10.1108/IJM-08-2017-0205</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

How immigrants helped EU labor markets to adjust during the Great Recession

Original language description

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.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50200 - Economics and Business

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA15-17810S" target="_blank" >GA15-17810S: After the curtain: empirical studies of migration in transition economies</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Manpower

ISSN

0143-7720

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

38

Issue of the periodical within the volume

7

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

996-1015

UT code for WoS article

000419108200006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85031791105