The Effect of Migration on Careers of Natives: Evidence from Long-Term Care

Peter Haan () and Izabela Wnuk ()
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Peter Haan: DIW Berlin
Izabela Wnuk: DIW Berlin

No 16749, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper examines the effect of increasing foreign staffing on the labor market outcomes of native workers in the German long-term care sector. Using administrative social security data covering the universe of long-term care workers and policy-induced exogenous variation, we find that increased foreign staffing reduces labor shortages but has diverging implications for the careers of native workers in the sector. While it causes a transition of those currently employed to jobs with better working conditions, higher wages, and non-manual tasks, it simultaneously diminishes re-employment prospects for the unemployed natives with LTC experience.

Keywords: immigration; shift-share instrument; long-term care; EU enlargement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I11 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 57 pages
Date: 2024-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-hea, nep-int, nep-lab, nep-mig and nep-ure
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