Immigrant Workers and Farm Performance: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Nikolaj Malchow-Møller; Jakob R. Munch; Claus Aastrup Seidelin; Jan Rose Skaksen

doi:10.1093/ajae/aat010

Immigrant Workers and Farm Performance: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, Jakob R. Munch, Claus Aastrup Seidelin, Jan Rose Skaksen

Department of Economics

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Abstract

In many developed countries, the agricultural sector has experienced a significant inflow of immigrants. At the same time, agriculture is still in a process of structural transformation, resulting in fewer but larger and presumably more efficient farms. We exploit matched employer-employee data for Danish farms in 1980–2008 to analyze the micro-level relationship between these two developments. Farms employing immigrants tend to be both larger than and no less productive than other farms. Furthermore, an increased use of immigrants is associated with an improvement in job creation and revenue, which at least partially seems to reflect a causal effect of immigrants.

Original language	English
Journal	American Journal of Agricultural Economics
Volume	95
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	819-841
ISSN	0002-9092
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/ajae/aat010
Publication status	Published - Jul 2013

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immigrants
job creation
productivity
revenue

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