Wages and Immigrant Occupational Composition in Sweden

Jorgen Hansen, Roger Wahlberg and Sharif Faisal
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Roger Wahlberg: University of Gothenburg
Sharif Faisal: Concordia University

No 4823, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between immigrant occupational composition and wages in Sweden. Effects of changes in proportion of immigrant workers in different occupations on the wage levels of both natives and immigrants are estimated. Our results suggest that increases in immigrant density have only small effects on wages and that the negative relationship between wages and the proportion of immigrant workers in an occupation, observed in data, is almost entirely accounted for by measured and unmeasured worker skills. These results suggest that wage differences across occupations with different densities of immigrants are mainly due to quality sorting and to a lesser extent due to the existence of discrimination.

Keywords: immigrants; refugees; occupational composition; quality sorting; wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2010-03
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