Do migrants displace native-born workers on the labour market? The impact of workers’ origin

Valentine Fays, Benoît Mahy and François Ryckx
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Valentine Fays: UMONS (Soci&ter) and ULB (CEBRIG, DULBEA)
Benoît Mahy: UMONS (Soci&ter) and ULB (CEBRIG, DULBEA)
François Ryckx: ULB (CEBRIG, DULBEA),

No 2024004, LIDAM Discussion Papers IRES from Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: 1st and 2nd generation migrants; Substainability; Complementarity; Moderating factors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J24 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42
Date: 2024-04-11
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