The Impact of Immigration on Wage Dynamics: Evidence from the Algerian Independence War

The labor market effects of Venezuelan migration to Colombia: reconciling conflicting results†

“…Importantly, the results from this paper are short term, and both theory and existing empirical evidence predict that the effect of migration on native wages should recover and possibly become positive in the long term (Edo, 2020;Verme and Schuettler, 2021). However, this is not necessarily true for the distributional consequences of migration, which often persist.…”

“…The magnitude of the average wage effect found in this paper is large but not unheard of in the literature, in the context of a large, sudden migrant arrival and short-run outcomes. For example, Edo (2020) finds that the repatriation of Algerians to France led to native wage effects between −1.3% and −2%, though wages recovered after 10 years. Dustmann et al (2017), studying the 1991 inflow of Czech workers into Germany, find that the corresponding elasticity is a smaller 0.13% fall in native wages alongside reductions in employment.…”

Regional productivity, local labour markets, and migration in Australia

“…In the longer run, as labour markets adapt to the increase in the labour supply through reallocation of capital and increased investment, the labour market effects get weaker or disappear completely (Edo and Özgüzel, 2023 [7]). 10 Overall, evidence from OECD countries indicate that adverse labour market effects are concentrated on lower educated native-born workers, as they are more likely to compete with migrant workers, while they are negligible for higher educated native-born (secondary education and above) who are more likely to benefit from skills complementarity (Dustmann, Schönberg and Stuhler, 2016 [11]).…”

“…The scatterplots in Figure 15 visualise the relationship between the regional migrant share and native employment rate (Figure 15, Panel A) or migrant employment rate (Figure 15, Panel B) across migrantreceiving OECD countries. 11 The orange trend lines show that regions with a larger migrant share (horizontal axis) also have higher employment rates (vertical axis) for native-born (Figure 15, Panel A) and migrants (Figure 15, Panel B). The slope of the trendline in Panel A indicates that OECD regions with a one percentage point higher migrant share (e.g., 15% to 16%), on average, have a 0.19 percentage points higher native employment rate.…”

“…While many factors can be driving these employment dynamics, one potential explanation is the high similarity between migrant cohorts (in terms of qualification, specification, and language proficiency). The literature suggests that when the skills of migrants are complementary to those of natives, both groups experience increased productivity, leading to higher wages and employment (Dustmann, Schönberg and Stuhler, 2016 [11]). As newly arrived migrants and pre-existing "migrants" have higher similarities in terms of skills, such positive synergies may not materialise (Özgüzel, 2021[12]).…”