Immigrants' Wage Performance in a Routine Biased Technological Change Era: France 1994-2012

Creators: Moreno-Galbis, Eva; Tanguy, Jérémy; Tritah, Ahmed; Laffineur, Catherine

Others:: Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques (AMSE) ; École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Institut de Recherche en Gestion et en Economie (IREGE) ; Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry]); Groupe d'Analyse des Itinéraires et des Niveaux Salariaux (GAINS) ; Le Mans Université (UM); Institut Convergences Migrations - Collège de France; Centre d'économie industrielle i3 (CERNA i3) ; Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) ; Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Groupe de Recherche en Droit, Economie et Gestion (GREDEG) ; Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS) ; COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA); Institut Universitaire de France and the French National Research Agency Grant ANR-17-EURE-0020; HCC; ANR-17-EURE-0020,AMSE (EUR),Aix-Marseille School of Economics(2017)

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Over the period 1994–2012, immigrants' wage growth in France outperformed that of natives. We investigate to what extent changes in task-specific returns to skills contributed to this wage dynamics differential through two channels: changes in the valuation of skills (price effect) and occupational sorting (quantity effect). We find that the wage growth premium of immigrants is mainly explained by the progressive reallocation of immigrants toward tasks whose returns increase over time. Immigrants seem to have taken advantage of labor demand restructuring driven by globalization and technological changes.

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Immigrants' Wage Performance in a Routine Biased Technological Change Era: France 1994-2012

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