Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20848 
Year of Publication: 
1998
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 2
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Trade and migration have become more important in recent years for Austria and Germany. The transition in Central and Eastern Europe has played an important role in this development. The derived labor market consequences are not fully clear so far. This paper presents the results of econometric sectoral panel studies for both countries The Austrian findings suggest that immigration exhibits negative effects on native employment and wages, and has no effects on total employment. Imports affect employment negatively and exports have a positive effect on wages. The German results indicate that immigration and trade is not harming employment and wages. Natives seem to be complements to migrants, at least to those from East Europe. Trade does not affect wages at all, and hardly affect employment. Thus one can expect that, while the Austrian labour market might be somewhat negatively affected by the East enlargement of the EU, the German labor market will not.
Subjects: 
trade
immigration
labour market
employment
JEL: 
J61
F14
J64
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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