Do Immigrants Push Natives towards Safer Jobs? Exposure to COVID-19 in the European Union.

Autor/inn/en	Bossavie, Laurent; Garrote Sanchez, Daniel; Makovec, Mattia; Ozden, Caglar
Institution	Weltbank
Titel	Do Immigrants Push Natives towards Safer Jobs? Exposure to COVID-19 in the European Union. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Verdrängen Einwanderer Einheimische in sicherere Jobs? Gefährdung durch COVID-19 in der Europäischen Union.
Quelle	Washington, DC (2020), 46 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Policy research working paper. 9500
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Gesundheitsgefährdung; Pandemie; Inländer; Migrationshintergrund; Beschäftigungseffekt; Einkommenseffekt; Arbeitsmarktrisiko; Arbeitsplatzwahl; Berufsstruktur; Qualifikation; Telearbeit; Berufswahl; Internationaler Vergleich; Auswirkung; Geschlechtsspezifik; Regionaler Vergleich; Sektorale Verteilung; Europäische Union; Arbeitnehmer
Abstract	"This paper assesses the impact ofimmigration to Western Europe on the exposure of native-born workers to economic and health risks created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Using various measures of occupational risks, it first shows that immigrant workers, especially those coming from lower-income member countries of the European Union or from outside the European Union, are more exposed to the negative income shocks relative to the natives. The paper then examines whether immigration has an impact on the exposure of natives to COVID-19-related risks in Western Europe. A Bartik-type shift share instrument is used to control for potential unobservable factors that would lead migrants to self-select into more vulnerable occupations across regions and bias the results. The results of the instrumental variable estimates indicate that the presenceof immigrant workers had a causal impact in reducing the exposure of natives to COVID-19-related economic and health risks in European regions. Estimated effects are stronger for high-skilled native workers than for low-skilled natives and for women relative to men. The paper does not find any significant effect of immigration on wages and employment, which indicates that the effects are mostly driven by are allocation from less safe jobs to safer jobs." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2021/3