Immigrant Workers and Farm Performance: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
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Immigrant Workers and Farm Performance : Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data. / Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Munch, Jakob R.; Seidelin, Claus Aastrup; Skaksen, Jan Rose.
In: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 95, No. 4, 2013, p. 819-841.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Immigrant Workers and Farm Performance
T2 - Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
AU - Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj
AU - Munch, Jakob R.
AU - Seidelin, Claus Aastrup
AU - Skaksen, Jan Rose
N1 - JEL Classification: F22; Q12
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - immigrants
KW - job creation
KW - productivity
KW - revenue
U2 - 10.1093/ajae/aat010
DO - 10.1093/ajae/aat010
M3 - Journal article
VL - 95
SP - 819
EP - 841
JO - American Journal of Agricultural Economics
JF - American Journal of Agricultural Economics
SN - 0002-9092
IS - 4
ER -
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