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Title: | Job loss among immigrant and native workers: evidence from Spain's economic downturn |
Author: | Motellón Corral, Elisabet López-Bazo, Enrique |
Keywords: | Política d'emigració i immigració Atur Treballadors estrangers Dret al treball Mercat de treball Emigration and immigration policy Unemployment Alien labor Right to labor Labor market |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
Publisher: | Universitat de Barcelona. Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública |
Series/Report no: | [WP E-AQR14/15] [WP E-IR14/27] |
Abstract: | The profound crisis that has affected the Spanish economy since mid - 2008 has been characterized by significant job losses and a marked rise in the country´s unemployment rate. However, unemployment has had a differential impact on different population groups. Compared to native, immigrant workers have experienced higher rates of job loss. Against this backdrop, this paper examines the differences between immigrants and natives (distinguished by gender) in terms of their probability of suffering job loss in the downturn of late 2008 and 2009. Our results indicate that the higher rate of job loss among female immigrant workers can be fully explained by their lower endowment of human capital. By contrast, human capital endowment and over-representation in certain occupations, sectors and regions in which the crisis had greatest impact do not appear to be the only reason for the penalty suffered by immigrant males in terms of their chances of losing their job in the downturn. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://www.ub.edu/irea/working_papers/2014/201427.pdf |
It is part of: | IREA – Working Papers, 2014, IR14/27 AQR – Working Papers, 2014, AQR14/15 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/60519 |
ISSN: | 2014-1254 |
Appears in Collections: | AQR (Grup d’Anàlisi Quantitativa Regional) – Working Papers Documents de treball (Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública (IREA)) Documents de treball / Informes (Econometria, Estadística i Economia Aplicada) Publicacions de projectes de recerca finançats per la UE |
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