Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/202630 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Memorandum No. 01/2019
Publisher: 
University of Oslo, Department of Economics, Oslo
Abstract: 
Norway experienced a high immigration flow after the EEA directive in 2004 stating workers right to free movement within the European Union and EEA-countries. There is no clear consensus in the literature on how immigration affects native wages, but some studies using Norwegian micro data have estimated a negative effect of higher immigration for some type of workers. In this paper, to capture that the wage setting is highly coordinated in Norway, we model a system of native wages for three sectors; manufacturing, private service industries and public sector. We estimate that labour immigration has had a negative effect on the attainable wage growth for natives in all three sectors, but that the largest and most direct impact on wages has been in the private service industries. Immigration is found to be exogenous with respect to the parameters of our model of wage formation.
Subjects: 
Cointegration
Error-correcting adjustment
Estimation and hypothesis testing in cointegrated models
Macroeconomic fluctuations and transmission mechanisms
Short-run and long-run impact
Vector Autoregressive Processes
Pattern wage bargaining
Small open economy wage policies
JEL: 
C52
E24
E31
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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