When Immigrants Meet Exporters: A Reassessment of the Immigrant Wage Gap

Léa Marchal, Guzmán Ourens and Giulia Sabbadini ()
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Giulia Sabbadini: Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics

Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne

Abstract: This article shows that wage inequalities between native and immigrant workers depends on the export activity of the employing firm. We build a model with heterogeneous firms and workers showing that white-collar immigrants capture an informational rent in exporting firms that help them close the wage gap with natives. We use French employer-employee data for the manufacturing sector from 2005 to 2015 to support this mechanism. We show that wages react to changes in export intensity when the export destination coincides with the region of origin of immigrant workers

Keywords: Export; Firm; Immigrants; Wage inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 F16 F22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 60 pages
Date: 2023-05
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Working Paper: When Immigrants Meet Exporters: A Reassessment of the Immigrant Wage Gap (2023)
Working Paper: When Immigrants Meet Exporters: A Reassessment of the Immigrant Wage Gap (2023)
Working Paper: When Immigrants Meet Exporters: A Reassessment of the Immigrant Wage Gap (2022)
Working Paper: When Immigrants Meet Exporters: A Reassessment of the Immigrant Wage Gap (2022)
Working Paper: When Immigrants Meet Exporters: A Reassessment of the Immigrant Wage Gap (2022)
Working Paper: When Immigrants Meet Exporters: A Reassessment of the Immigrant Wage Gap (2022)
Working Paper: When Immigrants Meet Exporters: A Reassessment of the Immigrant Wage Gap (2022)
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