How immigrants and job mobility help low-skilled workers

Mette Foged, Giovanni Peri

    Abstract

    The inflow of low-skilled migrants may encourage natives to upgrade their skills, taking advantage of immigrant-native complementarity. This column uses exogenous dispersion of refugees in Denmark to investigate this issue. The findings confirm that for low-skilled native workers, the presence of refugee-country immigrants spurred mobility and increased specialisation into complex jobs.
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    Publikationsdato19 apr. 2015
    StatusUdgivet - 19 apr. 2015

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