Immigrants' responsiveness to labor market conditions and their impact on regional employment disparities: Evidence from Spain

SERIEs

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 387-407

  Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina ^a,d   de la Rica, Sara ^b,c,d  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c Foundation for Applied Economic Research FEDEA   (Spain)

^d IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Immigrant location; Immigrant responsiveness; Immigrant workers; International migration; Labor market conditions; Regional disparities

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957236897     PISSN: 18694187     EISSN: 18694195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13209-009-0002-y     Document Type: Article

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