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Immigrant Workers and Farm Performance: Evidence from Matched Employer‐Employee Data
Author(s) -
Malchow-Møller Nikolaj,
Munch Jakob Roland,
Seidelin Claus Aastrup,
Skaksen Jan Rose
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
american journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.949
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1467-8276
pISSN - 0002-9092
DOI - 10.1093/ajae/aat010
Subject(s) - immigration , agriculture , revenue , danish , exploit , demographic economics , labour economics , business , job creation , economics , geography , linguistics , philosophy , computer security , accounting , archaeology , computer science
In many developed countries, the agricultural sector has experienced a significant inflow of immigrants. At the same time, agriculture is still in a process of structural transformation, resulting in fewer but larger and presumably more efficient farms. We exploit matched employer‐employee data for Danish farms in 1980–2008 to analyze the micro‐level relationship between these two developments. Farms employing immigrants tend to be both larger than and no less productive than other farms. Furthermore, an increased use of immigrants is associated with an improvement in job creation and revenue, which at least partially seems to reflect a causal effect of immigrants.