Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/232910 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14158
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We study the role of institutions in affecting the labor market impacts of immigration using a cross-country meta-analysis approach. To accomplish this, we gather information on 1,030 previously estimated wage effects and 432 employment effects of immigration from 61 academic studies covering 18 developed countries. The mean and median impact on the relative wage of directly exposed native workers are negative and significantly different from the small positive mean and median impact on the average wage level. This pattern is reversed for employment effects where the magnitudes are smaller. We combine this database with country-level data on labor market institutions from the OECD. The results suggest that institutions may shield native workers from distributional (relative) wage consequences of immigration but exacerbate the impacts on average wages in the economy. We do not detect a significant and robust association for the employment effects of foreign workers.
Subjects: 
immigration
wages
employment
labor market institutions
meta-analysis
JEL: 
D02
J08
J15
J31
J61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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