Mitaritonna, Cristina; Orefice, Gianluca; Peri, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Immigrants may complement native workers, increase productivity, allow specialization by skill in the firm and lower … immigrants. Allowing firms to have differential fixed cost in hiring immigrants we analyze the impact of an increase in local … supply of immigrants on firms' immigrant employment and firm's productivity. Using micro-level data on French firms, we show …