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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Economic Geography Année : 2021

Who stays and who leaves? Immigration and the selection of natives across locations

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We study the impact of local immigration inflows on natives' wages using a large French administrative panel from 1976-2007. We show that local immigration inflows are followed by reallocations of blue-collar natives across commuting zones. Because these reallocations vary with the initial occupation and blue-collar location movers have wages below the blue-collar average, controlling for changes in local composition is crucial to assess how wages adjust to immigration. Immigration temporarily lowers the wages of blue-collar workers, with unskilled workers experiencing larger losses. Location movers lose more than stayers in terms of daily wages but move to locations with cheaper housing.
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hal-03471940 , version 1 (09-12-2021)

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Javier Ortega, Gregory Verdugo. Who stays and who leaves? Immigration and the selection of natives across locations. Journal of Economic Geography, inPress, ⟨10.1093/jeg/lbab029⟩. ⟨hal-03471940⟩
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