Arbeitspapier
Low-Wage Jobs, Foreign-Born Workers, and Firm Performance
We examine how migrant workers impact firm performance using administrative data from the United States. Exploiting an unexpected change in firms' likelihood of securing low-wage workers through the H-2B visa program, we find limited crowd-out of other forms of employment and no impact on average pay at the firm. Yet, access to H-2B workers raises firms' annual revenues and survival likelihood. Our results are consistent with the notion that guest worker programs can help address labor shortages without inflicting large losses on incumbent workers.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 16438
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Labor Demand
International Migration
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- Subject
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guest workers
migrants
employment
firm dynamics
H-2B visa
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina
Arenas-Arroyo, Esther
Mahajan, Parag
Schmidpeter, Bernhard
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2023
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina
- Arenas-Arroyo, Esther
- Mahajan, Parag
- Schmidpeter, Bernhard
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2023
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