Nuremberg Research Seminar in Economics on 26 April 2023 – 16:45 (!!) – Zoom
You are invited to join the weekly Nuremberg Research Seminar in Economics on 26 April 2023, from 16:45 to 18:15 pm. The seminar will be held via Zoom. Giovanni Peri (University of California) will be talking about „Immigration and worker-Firm Matching”.
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The matching between firms and workers is an important determinant of wages in labor markets. The positive correlation between firms’ and workers’ productivity, called positive assortative matching, increases average wages and wage dispersion. Using French employer-employee data over the period 1995-2005, we find that increases in immigrant employment, driven by differential historical networks in local labor markets, were associated with stronger positive assortative matching between workers and firms, higher average wages, higher average profits, and higher wage dispersion. We also present evidence that suggests that these results could be driven by increased screening intensity by firms in the presence of a larger share of immigrants, which results in high-quality firms hiring more high-quality workers.