Labor market effects of immigration: evidence from neighborhood data

This paper combines individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with economic and demographic postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities of high- and low-skilled natives. Employing an instrumental variable strategy and utilizing the variation in the population share of foreigners across regions and time, we find no support for the hypothesis of adverse labor market effects of immigration.

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Authors: Bauer, Thomas K.; Flake, Regina; Sinning, Mathias G.

Corporate authors: Institute for the Study of Labour (Germany) (IZA)

Published: Bonn, Germany, IZA, 2011

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Physical description: 19 p.

Access item: http://ftp.iza.org/dp5707.pdf Request Item from NCVER

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Subjects: Labour marketDemographicsEmploymentIncomeMigration

Keywords: Low skilled workerSkilled workerWageMigrants

Geographic subjects: GermanyEurope

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