Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/267324 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 10092
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
export
firm
immigrants
wage inequality
JEL: 
F14
F22
F16
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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