TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Gatti, Nicolò
AU  - Mazzonna, Fabrizio
AU  - Parchet, Raphaël
AU  - Pica, Giovanni
        TI  - Opening the Labor Market to Qualified Immigrants in Absence of Linguistic Barriers
        PY  - 2022/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15631
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15631
        AB  - This paper investigates the impact of opening the labor market to qualified immigrants who hold fully equivalent diplomas with respect to natives and speak the same mother tongue. Leveraging the 2002 opening of the Swiss labor market to qualified workers from the European Union, we show that the policy change led to a large inflow of young immigrants with the same linguistic background as natives. This, in turn, produced heterogeneous effects on natives wages and employment. While incumbent workers experienced a wage gain and a decrease in the likelihood of becoming inactive, the opposite happened for young natives entering the labor market after the policy change. This is likely the result of different patterns of complementarity/substitutability between same-language immigrants and natives with different levels of labor market experience.
        KW  - worker substitutability
KW  - wage effects
KW  - qualified immigration
KW  - experience
        ER  -