Immigration, Working Conditions, and Compensating Differentials

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ID4573602
AutoresChad Sparber (0000-0001-9974-8809, University of North Florida), Madeline Zavodny (0000-0001-5966-1688, Chad Sparber is the W. Bradford Wiley Chair in International Economics at Colgate University, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), a Fellow at the Global Labor Organization (GLO), and an External Research Fellow at the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM). Madeline Zavodny is a Professor of Economics at the University of North Florida, a Research Fellow at IZA, and a Fellow at GLO)
Año2022
Volumen75
Número4
Páginas1054-1081
Fecha de publicación2022-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaIndustrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00197939211021379
OpenAlexW3135072021
ISBN9793921102137
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas31

The large inflow of less-educated immigrants into the United States in recent decades may have affected US natives' labor market outcomes in many ways, including their working conditions. Although the general consensus is that low-skilled immigrants tend to hold "worse" jobs than US natives, the impact of immigration on natives' working conditions has received little attention. This study examines how immigration has affected US natives' occupational exposure to workplace hazards and the compensating differential paid for such exposure from 1990 to 2018. Results indicate that immigration causes less-educated natives' exposure to workplace hazards to fall, and instrumental variables results show a larger impact among women than among men. The corresponding compensating differential appears to fall among men, but not after accounting for immigration-induced changes in the financial returns to occupational skills

Demographic economics · Differential (mechanical device) · Economics · Geography · Hazard · Immigration · Labour economics · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma