Immigrants-natives complementarities in production. Evidence from Italy.

Autor/in	Romiti, Agnese
Institution	Center for Research on Pensions and Welfare Policies (Turin)
Titel	Immigrants-natives complementarities in production. Evidence from Italy. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Komplementaritäten von Einwanderern und Einheimischen in der Produktion. Erkenntnisse aus Italien.
Quelle	Turin (2011), 26 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	CeRP Working Paper. 105/11
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Bildungsertrag; Substitution; Inländer; Migration; Migrationshintergrund; Beschäftigungseffekt; Einkommenseffekt; Privatwirtschaft; Arbeitskräfteangebot; Berufliche Qualifikation; Niedrig Qualifizierter; Qualifikationsstruktur; Auswirkung; Arbeitnehmer; Ausländer; Hoch Qualifizierter; Italiener; Italien
Abstract	This paper studies the impact of immigration on the Italian labour market using administrative data on Italian private-sector employees during the period 1995-2004. The analysis adopts a structural model based on a two levels CES production function extending the model in Card (2001) in order to allow for imperfect substitution between immigrants and natives within the same area-skill cell, other than between high and low skilled labour inputs. The endogeneity of labour supply is controlled for by using an instrument based on the (1985) historical immigrants' settlement as in Card (2001). The results, robust to the offsetting role of other factors' movements, provide evidence of a small but detectable degree of imperfect substitution between immigrants and natives. Despite immigrants not having any effect on natives' employment, the simulation based on the estimated parameters suggests that the actual flow of low-skilled immigrants over the period of analysis has reduced the wages only of similarly skilled immigrants (1%), with no impact on natives. At the same time the inflow of immigration has increased the return to skill for natives. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2014/1