Immigrants' Effect on Native Workers: New Analysis on Longitudinal Data

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Foged, Mette; Peri, Giovanni
• 署名单位: University of Copenhagen; University of California System; University of California Davis
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20150114
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 1-34
• 关键词: quasi-experimental evidence; labor-market impact; wages; PRODUCTIVITY; migration; cities; Israel; jobs

摘要

Using longitudinal data on the universe of workers in Denmark during the period 1991-2008, we track the labor market outcomes of low-skilled natives in response to an exogenous inflow of low-skilled immigrants. We innovate on previous identification strategies by considering immigrants distributed across municipalities by a refugee dispersal policy in place between 1986 and 1998. We find that an increase in the supply of refugee-country immigrants pushed less educated native workers (especially the young and low-tenured ones) to pursue less manual-intensive occupations. As a result immigration had positive effects on native unskilled wages, employment, and occupational mobility.