Who stays and who leaves? Immigration and the selection of natives across locations

Javier Ortega and Gregory Verdugo

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Abstract: We study the impact of local immigration inflows on natives' wages using a large French administrative panel from 1976-2007. We show that local immigration inflows are followed by reallocations of blue-collar natives across commuting zones. Because these reallocations vary with the initial occupation and blue-collar location movers have wages below the blue-collar average, controlling for changes in local composition is crucial to assess how wages adjust to immigration. Immigration temporarily lowers the wages of blue-collar workers, with unskilled workers experiencing larger losses. Location movers lose more than stayers in terms of daily wages but move to locations with cheaper housing.

Keywords: Immigration; Wages; Employment; France (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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Published in Journal of Economic Geography, In press, ⟨10.1093/jeg/lbab029⟩

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