New Evidence on the Impact of Legal Status on Immigrant Labor Market Performance: The Spanish Case

Labour ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes ◽  
Miguel A. Malo ◽  
Fernando Muñoz-Bullón
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Market Performance ◽  
Immigrant Labor ◽  
The Impact ◽  
New Evidence

scholarly journals Impacts of Labor Market Institutions and Demographic Factors on Labor Markets in Latin America

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (155) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Kugler
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Market Performance ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
Employment Protection ◽  
Labor Market Institutions ◽  
Market Institutions ◽  
Payroll Taxes ◽  
The Impact

This paper documents recent labor market performance in the Latin American region. The paper shows that unemployment, informality, and inequality have been falling over the past two decades, though still remain high. By contrast, productivity has remained stubbornly low. The paper, then, turns to the potential impacts of various labor market institutions, including employment protection legislation (EPL), minimum wages (MW), payroll taxes, unemployment insurance (UI) and collective bargaining, as well as the impacts of demographic changes on labor market performance. The paper relies on evidence from carefully conducted studies based on micro-data for countries in the region and for other countries with similar income levels to draw conclusions on the impact of labor market institutions and demographic factors on unemployment, informality, inequality and productivity. The decreases in unemployment and informality can be partly explained by the reduced strictness of EPL and payroll taxes, but also by the increased shares of more educated and older workers. By contrast, the fall in inequality starting in 2002 can be explained by a combination of binding MW throughout most of the region and, to a lesser extent, by the introduction of UI systems in some countries and the role of unions in countries with moderate unionization rates. Falling inequality can also be explained by the fall in the returns to skill associated with increased share of more educated and older workers.

scholarly journals The Wage Impact of Immigration in Germany - New Evidence for Skill Groups and Occupations

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Friedrich Steinhardt
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Education Experience ◽  
Native Workers ◽  
Wage Effects ◽  
Skill Groups ◽  
The Impact ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Biased Estimates

Abstract This paper contributes to the ongoing debate regarding the appropriate approach to use in identifying the impact of immigration on native workers’ labor market outcomes. The initial regression analysis makes use of German administrative data and is based on the variation of foreign workers’ shares within education-experience cells over time. It confirms previous findings suggesting that immigration in Germany had no adverse impact on native wages. However, the paper highlights that in Germany immigrants and natives with similar education and experience are likely to work in different occupations. The subsequent analysis based on occupational clustering uses the same data and finds significant adverse wage effects for natives, particularly for those in basic service occupations. The paper argues, therefore, that an identification strategy based on formal education characteristics might lead to biased estimates if a country’s labor market is characterized by occupational segmentation of immigrants.

scholarly journals Skills and their impact on labor market performance using European cross-country evidence

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
GEORGIOS GIOTIS
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Elementary Education ◽  
Market Performance ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Unemployment Rates ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Software Skills ◽  
The Impact

The impact of skills on labor market performance is a topic which has attracted a growing attention during the last years and has become a major concern among policy makers. In this paper, I discuss on the skill needs in Europe and skill shortages and surpluses as well. Moreover, I examine five important dimensions of skills: information skills, communication skills, problem solving skills, software skills and digital skills. For all of them I have found negative correlation with unemployment rates, findings which suggest that these skills can improve the employment prospects and reduce the skill mismatch in the workplace. Finally, I estimate the effect of three levels of education on unemployment rates across a sample of 28 European countries for the 1999-2016 time period. Both tertiary and elementary education seem to reduce unemployment for European countries, while secondary education is connected with increased unemployment rates.

scholarly journals The Impact of Regulations on Brazilian Labor Market Performance

2013 ◽  
pp. 273-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Paes De Barros ◽  
Carlos Henrique Corseuil
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Market Performance ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Job Loss and Immigrant Labor Market Performance

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernt Bratsberg ◽  
Oddbjørn Raaum ◽  
Knut Røed
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
Market Performance ◽  
Immigrant Labor
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