Arbeitspapier
Do migrants displace native-born workers on the labour market? The impact of workers' origin
This article is the first to examine how 1st-generation migrants affect the employment of workers born in the host country according to their origin, distinguishing between natives and 2nd-generation migrants. To do so, we take advantage of access to a unique linked employer-employee dataset for the Belgian economy enabling us to test these relationships at a quite precise level of the labour market, i.e. the firm level. Fixed effect estimates, including a large number of covariates, suggest complementarity between the employment of 1st-generation migrants and workers born in Belgium (both natives and 2nd-generation migrants, respectively). Several sensitivity tests, considering different levels of aggregation, workers' levels of education, migrants' region of origin, workers' occupations, and sectors corroborate this conclusion.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: GLO Discussion Paper ; No. 1420
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
- Subject
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1st- and 2nd-generation migrants
Substitutability
Complementarity
Moderating factors
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Fays, Valentine
Mahy, Benoît
Rycx, François
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Global Labor Organization (GLO)
- (where)
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Essen
- (when)
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2024
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Fays, Valentine
- Mahy, Benoît
- Rycx, François
- Global Labor Organization (GLO)
Time of origin
- 2024