Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/283242 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 2070
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
This paper examines the effect of increasing foreign staffing on the labor market outcomes of native workers in the German long-term care sector. Using administrative social security data covering the universe of long-term care workers and policy-induced exogenous variation, we find that increased foreign staffing reduces labor shortages but has diverging implications for the careers of native workers in the sector. While it causes a transition of those currently employed to jobs with better working conditions, higher wages, and non-manual tasks, it simultaneously diminishes re-employment prospects for the unemployed natives with LTC experience.
Subjects: 
immigration
shift-share instrument
long-term care
EU Enlargement
JEL: 
J61
I11
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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