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Table 3 The immigration impact on native wages and employment

From: How do rigid labor markets absorb immigration? Evidence from France

 

Monthly wage

Hours worked

Empl. rate to LF

Empl. rate to pop

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

 

OLS

IV

OLS

IV

OLS

IV

OLS

IV

 

A. All workers

A1. Basic regression

0.09 (0.55)

−0.02 (−0.06)

−0.02 (−0.26)

0.03 (0.27)

−0.37*** (−2.88)

−0.62*** (−2.69)

−0.33** (−2.41)

−0.85*** (−2.63)

 

B. Workers with indefinite-term contracts

B1. Basic regression

0.19 (1.18)

0.17 (0.63)

−0.02 (−0.33)

0.09 (0.83)

−0.68** (−2.60)

−1.10** (−2.43)

−0.63** (−2.39)

−1.30** (−2.44)

B2. Log of natives as additional regressor

0.15 (1.06)

−0.11 (−0.48)

−0.04 (−0.56)

−0.03 (−0.37)

−0.64** (−2.48)

−0.82* (−1.82)

−0.59** (−2.23)

−0.95** (−2.03)

B3. Exp. between 10 and 35 years

0.21 (0.84)

0.01 (0.08)

−0.20* (−2.19)

−0.02 (−0.13)

−0.15 (−0.31)

−0.81** (−2.08)

−0.21 (−0.42)

−0.80** (−2.14)

B4. log(M jkt /N jkt ) instead of p jkt

0.01 (0.65)

0.02 (0.63)

−0.00 (−0.34)

0.01 (0.85)

−0.06*** (−3.14)

−0.12** (−2.45)

−0.06** (−2.62)

−0.14** (−2.41)

 

C. Workers with fixed-term contracts

C1. Basic regression

−0.75* (−2.05)

−0.94* (−1.83)

−0.04 (−0.24)

−0.43** (−2.02)

0.42 (0.48)

1.61 (1.44)

0.39 (0.44)

1.28 (1.12)

C2. Log of natives as additional regressor

−0.97** (−2.23)

−1.21** (−2.30)

−0.09 (−0.41)

−0.51** (−2.03)

0.51 (0.57)

1.90 (1.63)

0.53 (0.60)

1.69 (1.39)

C3. Exp. between 10 and 35 years

−1.97*** (−3.48)

−1.76** (−2.51)

−0.82** (−2.78)

−1.15** (−2.10)

−1.72 (−1.34)

2.42 (1.14)

−1.77 (−1.38)

2.43 (1.14)

C4. log(M jkt /N jkt ) instead of p jkt

−0.05* (−1.82)

−0.10* (−1.79)

0.00 (0.06)

−0.05* (−1.89)

−0.03 (−0.44)

0.17 (1.43)

−0.03 (−0.46)

0.14 (1.12)

  1. Note: This table reports the estimated effect of the immigrant share on the monthly wage, hours worked, and employment rates of male natives. Standard errors are adjusted for clustering within education-experience cells. T-statistics are in parentheses
  2. *, **, and *** indicate significance at 10, 5, and 1 %, respectively