Protective or counter-productive? Labour market institutions and the effect of immigration on EU natives

Economic Journal

Volumn 113, Issue 488, 2003, Pages

  Angrist, Joshua D ^a,b   Kugler, Adriana D ^b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b National Bereau of Economics Research   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; LABOR MARKET;

EUROPE;

EID: 0037669798     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0297.00136     Document Type: Article

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