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.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: GLO Discussion Paper ; No. 1420

Classification
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
1st- and 2nd-generation migrants
Substitutability
Complementarity
Moderating factors

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Fays, Valentine
Mahy, Benoît
Rycx, François
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Global Labor Organization (GLO)
(where)
Essen
(when)
2024

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Fays, Valentine
  • Mahy, Benoît
  • Rycx, François
  • Global Labor Organization (GLO)

Time of origin

  • 2024

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