When Immigrants Meet Exporters: A Reassessment of the Immigrant Wage Gap

Léa Marchal (), Guzmán Ourens and Giulia Sabbadini
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Giulia Sabbadini: Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement - Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies [Geneva, Switzerland]

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Abstract: We use French employer-employee data to reassess the wage gap between native and foreign workers. We find that the wage gap varies with the export intensity of the firm and the occupation of the worker. A model with heterogeneous firms and workers shows that our findings are consistent with white-collar immigrants capturing an informational rent. The evidence supports this mechanism. First, we show that the wage gap is positively correlated with the complexity of the firm export activity. Second, we show that wages react to changes in export intensity when the export destination coincides with the origin of foreign workers.

Keywords: export; firm; immigrants; wage inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-12-18
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-eur, nep-int and nep-mig
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Working Paper: When Immigrants Meet Exporters: A Reassessment of the Immigrant Wage Gap (2023)
Working Paper: When Immigrants Meet Exporters: A Reassessment of the Immigrant Wage Gap (2023)
Working Paper: When Immigrants Meet Exporters: A Reassessment of the Immigrant Wage Gap (2023)
Working Paper: When Immigrants Meet Exporters: A Reassessment of the Immigrant Wage Gap (2022)
Working Paper: When Immigrants Meet Exporters: A Reassessment of the Immigrant Wage Gap (2022)
Working Paper: When Immigrants Meet Exporters: A Reassessment of the Immigrant Wage Gap (2022)
Working Paper: When Immigrants Meet Exporters: A Reassessment of the Immigrant Wage Gap (2022)
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