The impact of immigration on the French labor market: Why so different?

Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Grégory

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“…Edo (2016) finds that the wages of native workers covered by fixed-term contracts decrease in response to immigration, while employment is the margin at which native workers on indefinite-term contracts are affected. The findings in Edo (2015Edo ( , 2016 of a negative relationship between immigration and the outcomes of competing natives in the case of France differ from the results in Ortega and Verdugo (2014). Although these studies apply the same methodology to the case of France, Ortega and Verdugo (2014) find a positive effect of immigration on the wages and employment of competing natives.…”

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“…The findings in Edo (, ) of a negative relationship between immigration and the outcomes of competing natives in the case of France differ from the results in Ortega and Verdugo (). Although these studies apply the same methodology to the case of France, Ortega and Verdugo () find a positive effect of immigration on the wages and employment of competing natives. The structure of the data might explain these diverging conclusions.…”

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“…The structure of the data might explain these diverging conclusions. Edo (, ) uses annual data from 1990 to 2002 while Ortega and Verdugo () exploit variation across six censuses held between 1968 and 1999. It may be that Edo (, ) captures short‐run effects, while Ortega and Verdugo () report longer run effects, which take account of possible adjustment mechanisms triggered by immigration…”

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The Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market

Edo

2018

Journal of Economic Surveys

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The literature on the impact of immigration on the labor market is highly controversial. The aim of this paper is to review the existing literature and draw some general conclusions on how wages and employment respond to immigration. Economic studies indicate that the impact of immigration on the average wage and employment of native workers is null or slightly positive. However, because adjustments take time, the immediate labor market effects of unexpected (as opposed to expected) migration episodes can be detrimental. Immigration also can have distributional consequences. In particular, the skill composition of immigrants matters in determining their impact on native labor market outcomes. An inflow of immigrants will tend to reduce the wages of competing native workers (with skills similar to those of the migrants), and increase those of complementary workers (with skills that complement those of immigrants). By affecting the skill composition of the workforce, immigration can create winners and losers among native workers via changes in the wage structure.

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The Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market

Edo

2018

Journal of Economic Surveys

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“…Borjas, 2015;Peri and Yasenov, 2015), recent findings leveraging detailed individual and firm-level data suggest that immigrants and natives can also be thought of as complements, with positive, albeit relatively modest wage benefits (Ottaviano and Peri, 2012;Dustmann et al, 2013;Lewis and Peri, 2014). Another strand of this recent work shows how immigrant entry in labor markets prompts natives to shift occupations, with generally positive outcomes measured in terms of wages and employment (Peri and Sparber, 2009;Cattaneo et al, 2013;Ortega and Verdugo, 2014;Foged and Peri, 2016).…”

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Spillovers from immigrant diversity in cities

Kemeny

Cooke

2017

Journal of Economic Geography

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Theory and evidence suggest that people born in different countries complement each other in the labor market. Immigrant diversity could augment productivity by enabling the combination of different skills, ideas and perspectives, resulting in greater productivity. Using matched employer-employee data for the USA, this paper evaluates this claim, and makes empirical and conceptual contributions to prior work. It addresses the potential bias from unobserved heterogeneity among individuals, work establishments and cities. The paper also identifies diversity impacts at both city and workplace scales, and considers how relationships vary across different segments of the labor market. Findings suggest that urban immigrant diversity produces positive and nontrivial spillovers for U.S. workers. This social return represents a distinct channel through which immigration may generate broad-based economic benefits.

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“…See also the contribution of Ortega and Verdugo (2014) who study the occupational mobility among French natives in response to immigration over the period 1968-1999, as well as the study by Mitaritonna et al (2014) on the impact of immigration on French firm's productivity.…”

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How do rigid labor markets absorb immigration? Evidence from France

Edo

2016

IZA J Migration

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This paper investigates how immigration can affect the labor market outcomes of native workers when their wages are rigid. I use a rich dataset for France and decompose the native workers according to whether they are covered by fixed-term or indefinite-term contracts. Indefinite-term contracts are associated with higher wage protection than fixed-term contracts that allow firms to adjust wages as contracts expire. I use an empirical methodology which captures the direct effects of an immigrant-induced increase in labor supply on the labor market outcomes of natives who have similar skills. I find that the monthly wage of native workers covered by fixed-term contracts decreases in response to immigration, while employment is the margin through which native workers on indefinite-term contracts is affected.JEL codes: F22, J23, J41

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