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If migrants have low reservation wages, firms can profit\u00a0from \u201ccheap\u201d migrant labor by offering lower wages, at the cost of foregoing native workers with higher reservations. This\u00a0monopsonistic trade-off can generate large negative effects on native employment that exceed those in competitive models, and\u00a0which are concentrated among low-paying firms. We validate these predictions using firm-level evidence from a large immigration\u00a0wave in Germany, and we corroborate our findings using more aggregated data from the US. These adverse effects are not\u00a0inevitable, and may be ameliorated through policies which constrain monopsony power.<\/p><p><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/uni.lu\/dem-lunch-seminar-road-networks-and-tropical-deforestation-13102021-100-pm-cest-15942792\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Link for registration<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1863,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_image_focal_point":[],"show_featured_caption":false,"ulux_newsletter_groups":"","uluxPostTitle":"","uluxPrePostTitle":"","_trash_the_other_posts":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"event_start_date":"2022-11-30 13:00:00","event_end_date":"2022-11-30 14:00:00","event_speaker_name":"Jan Leonard Stuhler, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, ES","event_speaker_link":"","event_is_online":false,"event_location":"Please contact dem@uni.lu","event_street":"6 rue Richard Coudehove-Kalergi","event_location_link":"","event_zip_code":"L-1359","event_city":"Luxembourg","event_country":"LU"},"events-topic":[298],"events-type":[],"organisation":[137,100],"authorship":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lunchseminar in Economics: Immigration and Monopsony - Evidence Across the Distribution of Firms - FDEF I Uni.lu<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"AbstractWe argue that immigration can strengthen the monopsony power of firms. 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