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The contribution of foreign workers on productivity: firm level evidences in Italy
Corrado Polli, Oliviero Casacchia, Michelangelo Filippi

##manager.scheduler.building##: Velodromo - Bocconi University
##manager.scheduler.room##: N04
Date: 2019-01-25 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Last modified: 2018-12-26

Abstract


During the recent years several studies have been conducted on immigration in order to estimate the relationship between migrants’ flows, labour market changes and productivity. In Italy several studies have investigated the contribution of foreign workers on aggregate economic aspects as contribution to real GDP growth, impact of pension expenditure and the characteristics of ethnic entrepreneurship. However, there is little literature that analyze the contribution of foreign workers on productivity using micro-data. The aim of paper is to describe the main features of firms for socio-characteristics of employees and to investigate the effects of share of foreign workers on firm productivity. We assume that the production function is represented by a Cobb Douglas function. The first model proposed produce some estimation concerning the effect of share of foreign workers on firms productivity, with reference to some sectors and dimensional class of the Italian firms. The models are controlled for some variables that could affect the results obtained. Others models produce a set of values to estimate the effect of the presence of firms with high foreigners recruitment both on the dimension of local labour market and on the volume of worked hours.


Keywords


Foreign workers; Productivity; Labour Market