Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35005 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3264
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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).
Subjects: 
Immigration
firm-specific wages
outside options
JEL: 
F22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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