Opening the labor market to qualified immigrants in absence of linguistic barriers

Nicolò Gatti (), Fabrizio Mazzonna, Raphaël Parchet () and Giovanni Pica

No 483, Development Working Papers from Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano, University of Milano

Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of opening the labor market to qualified immigrants who hold fully equivalent diplomas as natives and share the same mother tongue. Leveraging the 2002 opening of the Swiss labor market to qualified workers from the European Union, we show that the policy led to a large inflow of young immigrants with highly heterogeneous effects on the wages and employment status of qualified natives. While incumbent natives experienced a wage gain and a decrease in the likelihood of becoming inactive, the opposite happened for young natives entering the labor market after the policy change.

Keywords: qualified immigration; wage effects; worker substitutability; experience (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J08 J31 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 49
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Working Paper: Opening the Labor Market to Qualified Immigrants in Absence of Linguistic Barriers (2022)
Working Paper: Opening The Labor Market to Qualified Immigrants in Absence of Linguistic Barriers (2022)
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