Do Immigrants Affect Firm-Specific Wages?

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dc.contributor.author	Munch, Jakob Roland	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Rose Skaksen, Jan	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2009-02-04T10:28:01Z
dc.date.available	2009-02-04T10:28:01Z
dc.date.issued	2008-12-01T00:00:00Z	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7665
dc.description.abstract	In this paper, we propose and test a novel effect of immigration on the wages of native workers. Existing studies have focused on the wage effects that result from changes in the aggregate labour supply in a competitive labour market. We argue that if labour markets are not fully competitive, the use of immigrants may also affect wage formation at the most disaggregate level – the workplace. Using linked employeremployee data, we find that an increased use of workers from less developed countries has a significantly negative effect on the wages of native workers at the workplace – also when controlling for potential endogeneity of the immigrant share using both fixed effects and IV. Additional evidence suggests that this effect works at least partly through a general effect on the wage norm in the firm of hiring employees with poor outside options (the immigrants).	en_US
dc.format.extent	35 s.	en_US
dc.language	eng	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Working paper;2008-07	en_US
dc.title	Do Immigrants Affect Firm-Specific Wages?	en_US
dc.type	wp	en_US
dc.accessionstatus	modt08dec01 nijemo	en_US
dc.contributor.corporation	Copenhagen Business School. CBS	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Økonomisk Institut	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentshort	ECON	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentuk	Department of Economics	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentukshort	ECON	en_US
dc.idnumber	x656557280	en_US
dc.publisher.city	København	en_US
dc.publisher.year	2008	en_US