Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20905
Year of Publication: 
1999
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 70
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes a unique feature of the 1988 Eurobarometer, which asks the native-born workers? assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of native-born workers in the European Union and presence of immigrants in the local labor market is evaluated from the native-born workers? own perspective. The empirical results indicate that there is little, if any, association between the presence of immigrants and unemployment among native-born workers.
Subjects: 
immigration
unemployment
education
JEL: 
F22
J64
J61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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