Immigration and the Informal Labor Market

This paper investigates the relationship between immigration and the size of the informal or underground economy. Exploiting the variation across Spanish provinces we find that the massive immigration wave between 2000 and 2009 is highly correlated to the share of unregistered employment,a proxy for...

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Authors: Farré, Lídia, Bosch, Mariano
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2014
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Barcelona
Repository:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/68498
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/68498
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Emigració i immigració
Economia submergida
Crisis econòmiques
Emigration and immigration
Informal sector (Economics)
Depressions
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spelling Immigration and the Informal Labor MarketFarré, LídiaBosch, MarianoEmigració i immigracióEconomia submergidaCrisis econòmiquesEmigration and immigrationInformal sector (Economics)DepressionsThis paper investigates the relationship between immigration and the size of the informal or underground economy. Exploiting the variation across Spanish provinces we find that the massive immigration wave between 2000 and 2009 is highly correlated to the share of unregistered employment,a proxy for the size of the underground or informal labor market. We estimate that a 10 percentage points increase in the share of immigrants in a province generates between a 3 and 8 percentage pointsincrease in unregistered employment. We also find that the controversial regularization of illegal aliensconducted in 2005 substantially reduced the number of illegal workers but did not affect the relationshipbetween immigration and informality. In contrast, we do find that this relationship becomes stronger during the economic recession inaugurated in 2008.Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad2014info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/68498Articles publicats en revistes (Econometria, Estadística i Economia Aplicada)reponame:Dipòsit Digital de la UBinstname:Universidad de BarcelonaInglésReproducció del document publicat a: http://www.revistasice.com/CachePDF/CICE_87_185-204__78F43D35350E11A3F5B49FCC4D14C99D.pdfCuadernos Económicos del ICE, 2014, vol. 2014, num. 87, p. 185-204(c) Cuadernos Económicos del ICE , 2014info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/684982026-05-27T06:46:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Immigration and the Informal Labor Market
title Immigration and the Informal Labor Market
spellingShingle Immigration and the Informal Labor Market
Farré, Lídia
Emigració i immigració
Economia submergida
Crisis econòmiques
Emigration and immigration
Informal sector (Economics)
Depressions
title_short Immigration and the Informal Labor Market
title_full Immigration and the Informal Labor Market
title_fullStr Immigration and the Informal Labor Market
title_full_unstemmed Immigration and the Informal Labor Market
title_sort Immigration and the Informal Labor Market
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Farré, Lídia
Bosch, Mariano
author Farré, Lídia
author_facet Farré, Lídia
Bosch, Mariano
author_role author
author2 Bosch, Mariano
author2_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Emigració i immigració
Economia submergida
Crisis econòmiques
Emigration and immigration
Informal sector (Economics)
Depressions
topic Emigració i immigració
Economia submergida
Crisis econòmiques
Emigration and immigration
Informal sector (Economics)
Depressions
description This paper investigates the relationship between immigration and the size of the informal or underground economy. Exploiting the variation across Spanish provinces we find that the massive immigration wave between 2000 and 2009 is highly correlated to the share of unregistered employment,a proxy for the size of the underground or informal labor market. We estimate that a 10 percentage points increase in the share of immigrants in a province generates between a 3 and 8 percentage pointsincrease in unregistered employment. We also find that the controversial regularization of illegal aliensconducted in 2005 substantially reduced the number of illegal workers but did not affect the relationshipbetween immigration and informality. In contrast, we do find that this relationship becomes stronger during the economic recession inaugurated in 2008.
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