TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Aslund, Olof
AU  - Bratu, Cristina
AU  - Lombardi, Stefano
AU  - Thoresson, Anna
        TI  - Firm Productivity and Immigrant-Native Earnings Disparity
        PY  - 2021/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14960
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14960
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - firm productivity
KW  - immigrant-native earnings gaps
KW  - wage inequality
        ER  -