Data for: The effects of immigration in frictional labor markets: Theory and empirical evidence from EU countries

Abstract of associated article: Immigrants are newcomers in a labor market. As a consequence, they lack host-country-specific labor market knowledge and other country-specific and not directly productive valuable assets affecting their relative bargaining position with employers. We introduce this simple observation into a search and matching model of the labor market and show that immigrants increase the employment prospects of competing natives. To test the predictions of our model, we exploit yearly variations between 1998 and 2004 in the share of immigrants within occupations in 13 European countries. We identify the impact of immigrants on natives׳ employment rate using an instrumental variable strategy based on historical settlement patterns across host countries and occupations by origin country. We find that natives׳ employment rate increases in occupations and sectors receiving more immigrants. Moreover, we show that this effect varies depending on immigrants׳ characteristics and on host country labor market institutions which affect relative reservation wages.

相关文章摘要：移民在劳动力市场中是新来者。因此，他们缺乏东道国特定的劳动力市场知识以及其他与特定国家相关且非直接生产性的宝贵资产，这些资产影响了他们与雇主之间的相对议价能力。我们将这一简单观察引入劳动力市场的搜索与匹配模型，并证明移民增加了与本地竞争者的就业前景。为了检验我们模型的预测，我们利用了1998年至2004年间13个欧洲国家职业中移民份额的年度变化。我们采用基于东道国和原籍国职业的历史定居模式的外生变量策略，来识别移民对本地就业率的影响。我们发现，在接收更多移民的职业和行业中，本地就业率有所上升。此外，我们还发现，这种影响因移民的特征以及影响相对保留工资的东道国劳动力市场制度而异。