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The impact of immigration on the Portuguese labour market
| Resumo: | This dissertation examines the impact of immigration on the Portuguese labour market. Namely, on the average wage and wage distribution of natives, and on the employment rate, unemployment rate, and labour force participation rate of natives. Studies on the effects of immigrants on the labour market in Portugal are still scarce. The subject has become growingly important with the increase in immigration over the past two decades. The analysis is framed into a pure spatial theoretical model, without preallocation of workers into skill groups, and uses a dataset from a quarterly sample survey that characterizes the labour market in Portugal between 2003 and 2019. The impact of immigrants on natives is estimated through an instrumental variable approach using a differenceindifference strategy. The analysis shows that immigration does not have a significant impact on natives’ wages, but tends more towards a negative impact, especially in the lowest percentiles. In addition, immigrants negatively impact the labour force participation rate of natives, which is mainly driven by the negative impact on the employment rate of natives. In terms of heterogeneity, men are more negatively affected by immigrants than women, and natives with low education are also more harmed when compared to natives with higher levels of education. |
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| Autores principais: | Santos, Mariana Cardoso dos |
| Assunto: | Immigration Impact Wages Wage distribution Employment Labour Imigração Impacto Salários Distribuição salarial Emprego Trabalho |
| Ano: | 2023 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade Católica Portuguesa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa |
| Resumo: | This dissertation examines the impact of immigration on the Portuguese labour market. Namely, on the average wage and wage distribution of natives, and on the employment rate, unemployment rate, and labour force participation rate of natives. Studies on the effects of immigrants on the labour market in Portugal are still scarce. The subject has become growingly important with the increase in immigration over the past two decades. The analysis is framed into a pure spatial theoretical model, without preallocation of workers into skill groups, and uses a dataset from a quarterly sample survey that characterizes the labour market in Portugal between 2003 and 2019. The impact of immigrants on natives is estimated through an instrumental variable approach using a differenceindifference strategy. The analysis shows that immigration does not have a significant impact on natives’ wages, but tends more towards a negative impact, especially in the lowest percentiles. In addition, immigrants negatively impact the labour force participation rate of natives, which is mainly driven by the negative impact on the employment rate of natives. In terms of heterogeneity, men are more negatively affected by immigrants than women, and natives with low education are also more harmed when compared to natives with higher levels of education. |
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