Immigrants’ Wage Performance in a Routine Biased Technological Change Era: France 1994-2012

Eva Moreno-Galbis (), Jeremy Tanguy, Ahmed Tritah and Catherine Laffineur
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Eva Moreno-Galbis: AMSE - Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - ECM - École Centrale de Marseille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
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Abstract: Over the period 1994–2012, immigrants' wage growth in France outperformed that of natives. We investigate to what extent changes in task-specific returns to skills contributed to this wage dynamics differential through two channels: changes in the valuation of skills (price effect) and occupational sorting (quantity effect). We find that the wage growth premium of immigrants is mainly explained by the progressive reallocation of immigrants toward tasks whose returns increase over time. Immigrants seem to have taken advantage of labor demand restructuring driven by globalization and technological changes.

Keywords: Wage dynamics; tasks; immigrants; skills (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-10
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Published in Industrial Relations, 2019, 58 (4), pp.623-673. ⟨10.1111/irel.12245⟩

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DOI: 10.1111/irel.12245

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