@techreport{Malchow-Mller2007immigrants,
abstract = {In this paper, we propose and test a novel effect of immigration on the wages of native workers. Existing studies have focused on the wage effects that result from changes in the aggregate labour supply in a competitive labour market. We argue that if labour markets are not fully competitive, the use of immigrants may also affect wage formation at the most disaggregate level - the workplace. Using linked employer-employee data, we find that an increased use of workers from less developed countries has a significantly negative effect on the wages of native workers at the workplace - also when controlling for potential endogeneity of the immigrant share using both fixed effects and IV. Additional evidence suggests that this effect works at least partly through a general effect on the wage norm in the firm of hiring employees with poor outside options (the immigrants).},
address = {Bonn},
author = {Nikolaj Malchow-M\o{}ller and Jakob Roland Munch and Jan Rose Skaksen},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {F22; 330; Immigration; firm-specific wages; outside options; Migranten; Ausl\"{a}ndische Arbeitskr\"{a}fte; Lohnbildung; Lohn; D\"{a}nemark},
language = {eng},
number = {3264},
publisher = {IZA},
title = {Do immigrants affect firm-specific wages?},
type = {IZA Discussion Papers},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/35005},
year = {2007}
}
