Firm Productivity and Immigrant-Native Earnings Disparity

Olof Aslund (), Cristina Bratu, Stefano Lombardi and Anna Thoresson ()
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Olof Aslund: Uppsala University
Anna Thoresson: IFAU

No 14960, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We study the role of firm productivity in explaining earnings disparities between immigrants and natives using population-wide matched employer-employee data from Sweden. We find substantial earnings returns to working in firms with higher persistent productivity, with greater gains for immigrants from non-Western countries. Moreover, the pass-through of within-firm productivity variation to earnings is stronger for immigrants in low-productive, immigrant-dense firms. But immigrant workers are underrepresented in high-productive firms and less likely to move up the productivity distribution. Thus, sorting into less productive firms decreases earnings in poor-performing immigrant groups that would gain the most from working in high-productive firms.

Keywords: firm productivity; immigrant-native earnings gaps; wage inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J31 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2021-12
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