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Title: Does Immigration Affect the Phillips Curve? Some Evidence for Spain

Author(s): Samuel Bentolila, Juan J. Dolado and Juan F Jimeno

Publication Date: December 2007

Keyword(s): Immigration and Phillips curve

Programme Area(s): Labour Economics

Abstract: The Phillips curve has flattened in Spain over 1995-2006: unemployment has fallen by 15 percentage points, with roughly constant inflation. This change has been more pronounced than elsewhere. We argue that this stems from the immigration boom in Spain over this period. We show that the New Keynesian Phillips curve is shifted by immigration if natives? and immigrants? labour supply or bargaining power differ. Estimation of the curve for Spain indicates that the fall in unemployment since 1995 would have led to an annual increase in inflation of 2.5 percentage points if it had not been largely offset by immigration.

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Bentolila, S, Dolado, J and Jimeno, J. 2007. 'Does Immigration Affect the Phillips Curve? Some Evidence for Spain'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=6604