%0 Report
        %A Aslund, Olof
%A Bratu, Cristina
%A Lombardi, Stefano
%A Thoresson, Anna
        %T Firm Productivity and Immigrant-Native Earnings Disparity
        %D 2021
        %8 2021 Dec
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 14960
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14960
        %X We study the role of firm productivity in explaining earnings disparities between immigrants and natives using population-wide matched employer-employee data from Sweden. We find substantial earnings returns to working in firms with higher persistent productivity, with greater gains for immigrants from non-Western countries. Moreover, the pass-through of within-firm productivity variation to earnings is stronger for immigrants in low-productive, immigrant-dense firms. But immigrant workers are underrepresented in high-productive firms and less likely to move up the productivity distribution. Thus, sorting into less productive firms decreases earnings in poor-performing immigrant groups that would gain the most from working in high-productive firms.
        %K firm productivity
%K immigrant-native earnings gaps
%K wage inequality