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

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

50200 - Economics and Business

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA15-17810S" target="_blank" >GA15-17810S: Po oponě: empirické studie migrace v tranzitivních ekonomikách</a><br>

Návaznosti

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

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

International Journal of Manpower

ISSN

0143-7720

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

38

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

7

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

20

Strana od-do

996-1015

Kód UT WoS článku

000419108200006

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85031791105