How immigrants and job mobility help low-skilled workers

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The inflow of low-skilled migrants may encourage natives to upgrade their skills, taking advantage of immigrant-native complementarity. This column uses exogenous dispersion of refugees in Denmark to investigate this issue. The findings confirm that for low-skilled native workers, the presence of refugee-country immigrants spurred mobility and increased specialisation into complex jobs.
Original languageEnglish
Publication date19 Apr 2015
Publication statusPublished - 19 Apr 2015

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