@article{Almosova:245722,
      recid = {245722},
      author = {Almosova, Anna},
      title = {Labor market institutions and the effect of immigration on  national employment},
      journal = {Business and Economic Horizons (BEH)},
      address = {2013},
      number = {1232-2016-101189},
      pages = {22},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {Integration processes in Europe resulted in  intensification of migration flows. Immigrants account now  for a large share of population in many European countries.  A point of view that immigrants take jobs form natives is  quite widespread. The European Monitoring Centre on Racism  and Xenophobia published a special analysis of the  attitudes towards minorities in EU countries Eurobarometer  2000. They found that one in two EU citizens worry about  competing with immigrants for the same vacancies and afraid  of losing their jobs because of presence of foreign  workers. Different measures and institutions which protect  native workers have nevertheless an ambiguous effect. On  the one hand labor protective institutions such as minimal  wage, replacement rate or firing restrictions will protect  existing workers and reduce a firing rate. On the other  hand, firms will take into consideration these additional  costs of firing and will be less likely to employ new  workers. At the same time, it is argued that immigrants are  probably less likely to be covered by these institutions.  These facts imply that protective institutions cover mostly  natives and therefore make immigration labor force  comparatively less costly. Labor market protection may  therefore amplify a negative effect of immigrants on native  employment if it exists.
This paper attempts to evaluate  the effect of immigration in flow on employment level of  natives and reveal whether this effect changes in different  institutional environments using EU-countries data. In  addition to static specification it uses a dynamic  specification to draw conclusions about long-term and  short-term effects separately. The results show no long-run  effect of immigration inflow. Short-term effect of is found  to be positive. Protective labor market institutions  fulfill their function of protecting existing workers. The  results are also different for men and women.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/245722},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.245722},
}