Do Migrants Displace Native-Born Workers on the Labour Market? The Impact of Workers' Origin

Valentine Fays, Benoît Mahy () and Francois Rycx
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Valentine Fays: University of Mons
Benoît Mahy: University of Mons

No 16887, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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; substitutability; complementarity; moderating factors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J24 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44 pages
Date: 2024-03
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Working Paper: Do migrants displace native-born workers on the labour market? The impact of workers’ origin (2024)
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