Resumen de Immigrant Selection over the Business Cycle: The Spanish Boom and the Great Recession

Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga

• Spain received more immigrants than any other European country during its boom between 1997 and 2007 but continued receiving them during the recession that fol- lowed. This paper documents the selection of these immigrants in terms of their pro- ductive characteristics both before and after the peak of the boom. Pre-crisis immi- grants were typically positively selected although selection was less positive for some over-represented national groups. Post-crisis immigration became even more positively selected, as well as older and more feminized.