published as 'Developing an immigration policy for Germany on the basis of a nonparametric labor market classification' in: Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv /Journal of the German Statistical Society, 2004, 88(1), 1-22
This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities
in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this
approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor
market rigidities. In an application to western Germany it is demonstrated that nonparametric
regression is feasible in higher dimensions with only a few thousand observations. In sum,
labor markets able to absorb immigrants are characterized by above average age and by
professional occupations. On the other hand, labor markets for young workers in service
occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are
therefore not recommended for immigration.
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