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Home | Events Archive | Worker Power, Immigrant Sorting, and Firm Competition
Seminar

Worker Power, Immigrant Sorting, and Firm Competition

  • Series
    Labor Seminars
  • Speaker(s)
    Mikko Silliman (Aalto University, Finland)
  • Field
    Empirical Microeconomics
  • Location
    Tinbergen Institute Amsterdam, room 1.01
    Amsterdam
  • Date and time

    December 17, 2024
    15:30 - 16:30

Abstract

We provide a comprehensive causal assessment of how worker power shapes the sorting of immigrants across firms and how that subsequently influences firm performance and the careers of incumbent workers. The main takeaway of our paper is that, while aiming to protect their own members, union representation constrains firms' ability to capitalize on immigrant-induced labor supply shifts, ultimately harming both firms and incumbent workers. Joint paper with Alexander Willén.