Demography and the Labour Market

The Economics of Immigration 

This line of research focus on two particular issues: On the one hand, the analysis of the impact of immigrants in the host country - Europe in general and Spain in particular. On the second hand, it looks at Immigrants Outcomes in Europe and in Spain as compared to natives, both in the short and in the long-run.

 Researchers: Sara de la Rica and Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes

Recent Papers related to this line of research:

 

De la Rica, S., A. Glitz and F. Ortega,  "Immigration in Europe: Trends, Policies and Empirical Evidence", in B. Chiswick and    P. Miller, eds, Handbook of the Economics of International Migration, 2014 

Amuedo-Dorantes, C. and S. De la Rica 
"The Immigration Surplus and the Substitutability of Immigrant and Native Labor: Evidence from Spain",Empirical Economics, 2011

Amuedo-Dorantes, C. and S. De la Rica "
Complements or Substitutes? Task Specialization by Gender and Nativity in Spain", Labour Economics, 2011

Amuedo-Dorantes, C. and S. De la Rica, 
"Immigrants' Responsiveness to Labor Market Conditions and Their Impact on Regional Employment Disparities: Evidence from Spain" 
SERIEs, vol.1(4), pp:387-409, 2010. 

        De la Rica, S, “The effect of the 2004 and 2007 EU- Enlargement on the Spanish Labour Market”, chapter 5 EU Enlargement and the Labour Markets, edited by M. Kahanec and K. Zimmermann, Springer Press, Berlin-New          York,   2010.

        De la Rica, S, “Social and Labour Market Integration of Ethnic Minorities in Spain”,
 chapter 3 Ethnic Minorities in European Labour Markets: Challenges and Solutions, edited by M. Kahanec and K. Zimmermann, Edward Elgar Publishers, 2010.