Moving Up or Down? Immigration and the Selection of Natives across Occupations and Locations

Javier Ortega and Gregory Verdugo

No 10303, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Exploiting a large French panel for 1976-2007, we examine the impact of low-educated immigration on the labour market outcomes of blue-collar natives initially in jobs where immigrants became overrepresented in the last decades. Immigrant inflows generate substantial reallocations of natives across locations and occupations. Location movers are negatively selected while occupation movers are positively selected and move towards better paid-jobs characterised by less routine tasks. As a result, controlling for composition effects has an important quantitative impact on the estimated effects of immigration. Low-educated immigration generally lowers the wages of blue-collar workers, but its impact is heterogeneous across sectors.

Keywords: employment; immigration; wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 53 pages
Date: 2016-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-int, nep-lma, nep-mig and nep-ure
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Published - revised version published as 'Who stays and who leaves? Immigration and the selection of natives across locations' in Journal of Economic Geography, 2022, 22 (2), 221 - 260

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