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Impact of Low‐Skilled Immigration on Female Labour Supply
Author(s) -
Forlani Emanuele,
Lodigiani Elisabetta,
Mendolicchio Concetta
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the scandinavian journal of economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.725
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1467-9442
pISSN - 0347-0520
DOI - 10.1111/sjoe.12101
Subject(s) - margin (machine learning) , immigration , economics , labour economics , service (business) , production (economics) , market segmentation , labour supply , tertiary sector of the economy , demographic economics , geography , economy , microeconomics , archaeology , machine learning , computer science
In this paper, segmenting the market by educational levels, we investigate which native‐born women are more affected by an increase of low‐skilled immigrants working in the household service sector. We present a model of individual choice with home production and, using a harmonized dataset (the Cross‐National Equivalent File), we estimate its main comparative static results. The results suggest that the share of immigrants working in services is positively associated with an increase of native‐born women's labour supply at the intensive margin, if skilled, and at the extensive margin, if unskilled. Moreover, the results show that these effects are larger in countries with less‐supportive family policies.