Replication data for: Protective or Counter-Productive? Labour Market Institutions and the Effect of Immigration on EU Natives

Reduced labour market flexibility may protect some native workers from immigrant competition but can increase negative effects on equilibrium employment. This motivates an analysis of immigration effects interacted with institutions. OLS estimates for European countries show small, mostly negative immigration effects while an IV strategy based on immigrants from former Yugoslavia generates larger though mostly insignificant negative estimates. Specifications allowing interactions between immigration and measures of labour and product market rigidity are consistent with the view that reduced flexibility increases negative immigration effects. The estimates typically imply more native job losses in countries with restrictive institutions, especially restricted product markets.劳动力市场灵活性的降低，或可在一定程度上保护本土工人免受移民的竞争冲击，但同时会加剧对均衡就业的负面影响。这一研究动机推动了关于移民效应与制度交互作用的相关分析。针对欧洲国家的普通最小二乘（OLS）估计结果显示，移民的就业效应整体偏小且多为负值；而基于前南斯拉夫移民群体构建的工具变量（IV）策略得到的负向估计值幅度更大，尽管多数估计结果并不显著。纳入移民与劳动力、产品市场管制僵化程度衡量指标交互项的模型设定，与"劳动力市场灵活性降低会加剧移民负面影响"的观点保持一致。该估计结果普遍表明，在制度管制较为严格的国家——尤其是产品市场管制严格的国家——本土工人的失业损失会更为显著。