TY - RPRT AU - White, Michael AU - Bryson, Alex TI - Do Migrants Lower Workplace Wages? PY - 2017/Feb/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 10549 UR - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp10549 AB - Using nationally representative workplace data for Britain we identify the partial correlation between workplace wages and the percentage of migrants employed at a workplace. We find wages are lower in workplaces employing a higher percentage of migrants, but only when those migrants are non-EEA migrants. However, the effects are no longer apparent when we condition on the ethnic complexion of employees at the workplace. Instead, the wage penalty is attached to the percentage of non-white employees, a finding that is consistent with employer discrimination on grounds of race, or lower worker bargaining power when employees are ethnically diverse. KW - earnings KW - low pay KW - race KW - wages KW - ethnicity KW - migration KW - migrants KW - discrimination ER -