On the aggregate effects of immigration in Spain

Mario Izquierdo, Juan F. Jimeno, Juan A. Rojas
2010 SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association  
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more » ... bedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Abstract Over the period 1995-2006 the Spanish economy experienced a rapid increase in employment and output growth, a surge in investment over GDP, a substantial deterioration in the current account balance and an improvement in the finances of the social security system. This paper presents a dynamic general equilibrium model designed to quantify the role played by immigration in shaping these facts. In the context of the aging of the Spanish population, we also analyze the medium and long run effects of the immigration process accounting for relevant supply and demand effects. This is done by allowing for enough heterogeneity in the demographic characteristics of immigrant and native workers in a way that allow us to perform counterfactual experiments regarding the flow of immigrants and its skill composition. JEL Classification E20 · J10 We are grateful to Fransesc Ortega and seminar participants at INSIDE and the Workshop "Modelling the effects of pensions and other welfare state transfers in an aging world" organized by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (Spain) for helpful comments. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the authors and do not reflect those of the Bank of Spain or the Eurosystem. M. Izquierdo
doi:10.1007/s13209-010-0021-8 fatcat:fxf3mjnghjf2tlyifcpkr6jcc4