How immigrants and job mobility help low-skilled workers

Mette Foged; Giovanni Peri

How immigrants and job mobility help low-skilled workers

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.

Original language	English
Publication date	19 Apr 2015
Publication status	Published - 19 Apr 2015

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