The Impact of Immigration on Native Wages and Employment

Anthony Edo

Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne

Abstract: This paper investigates the immigration impact on native outcomes using micro-level data for France. I find that immigration does not affect the wages of competing natives, but induces adverse employment effects. This finding is consistent with a wage structure that is much less flexible in France. The quality of the data allows to dig more deeply into the interpretation of the immigration impact. First, I show that immigrants displace native workers because they are more willing to have bad employment conditions. Second, I find that natives on short-term contracts, who are less subject to wage rigidities, do experience wage losses due to immigration

Keywords: Immigration; wage rigidities; employment; naturalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J31 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45 pages
Date: 2013-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab, nep-lma and nep-mig
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Published in The Business Economics, Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2015, 15, (3), pp.1151–1196

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https://doi.org/10.1515/bejeap-2014-0075

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Journal Article: The Impact of Immigration on Native Wages and Employment (2015)
Working Paper: The Impact of Immigration on Native Wages and Employment (2013)
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