Do migrants displace native-born workers on the labour market? The impact of workers’ origin

Fays, Valentine;Mahy, Benoît;Ryckx, François
(2024) , 42 pages

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  • Fays, ValentineUMONS (Soci&ter) and ULB (CEBRIG, DULBEA)
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  • Mahy, BenoîtUMONS (Soci&ter) and ULB (CEBRIG, DULBEA)
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  • Ryckx, FrançoisUCLouvain
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This article is the first to examine how 1st-generation migrants affect the employment of workers born in the host country according to their origin, distinguishing between natives and 2nd-generation migrants. To do so, we take advantage of access to a unique linked employer-employee dataset for the Belgian economy enabling us to test these relationships at a quite precise level of the labour market, i.e. the firm level. Fixed effect estimates, including a large number of covariates, suggest complementarity between the employment of 1st-generation migrants and workers born in Belgium (both natives and 2nd-generation migrants, respectively). Several sensitivity tests, considering different levels of aggregation, workers’ levels of education, migrants’ region of origin, workers’ occupations, and sectors corroborate this conclusion.
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Fays, V., Mahy, B., & Ryckx, F. (2024). Do migrants displace native-born workers on the labour market? The impact of workers’ origin (LIDAM Discussion Paper IRES 2024/04). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/163993