When Immigrants Meet Exporters: A Reassessment of the Immigrant Wage Gap
Résumé
We use French employer-employee data to reassess the wage gap between native and foreign
workers. We find that the wage gap varies with the export intensity of the firm and the occupation
of the worker. A model with heterogeneous firms and workers shows that our findings are
consistent with white-collar immigrants capturing an informational rent. The evidence supports
this mechanism. First, we show that the wage gap is positively correlated with the complexity of
the firm export activity. Second, we show that wages react to changes in export intensity when
the export destination coincides with the origin of foreign workers.
Domaines
Economies et financesOrigine | Fichiers produits par l'(les) auteur(s) |
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