Arbeitspapier

Immigrant workers and farm performance: Evidence from matched employer-employee data

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Many developed countries have recently experienced a significant inflow of immigrants in the agricultural sector. At the same time, the sector is still in a process of structural transformation resulting in fewer but bigger and presumably more efficient farms. In this paper, we exploit detailed matched employer-employee data for the entire population of Danish farms in the period 1980-2008 to analyze the micro-level relationship between these two developments. We find that farms that employ immigrants tend to be both larger and at least as productive as other farms. Furthermore, an increased use of immigrants is found to be associated with an improvement in farm performance as measured by job creation and revenue, and this seems at least in part to reflect a causal effect of the immigrants.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 7133

Classification
Wirtschaft
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Agricultural Labor Markets
Subject
immigration
agriculture
matched employer-employee data
Landwirtschaft
Unternehmenserfolg
Ausländische Arbeitskräfte
Betriebsgröße
Dänemark

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj
Munch, Jakob Roland
Aastrup Seidelin, Claus
Skaksen, Jan Rose
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2013

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj
  • Munch, Jakob Roland
  • Aastrup Seidelin, Claus
  • Skaksen, Jan Rose
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2013

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