Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 1 Inverse substitution elasticities between migrants and natives, by qualification and task

From: Why to employ both migrants and natives? A study on task-specific substitutabilityWarum gleichzeitig Migranten und Einheimische beschäftigen? Eine Untersuchung der Aufgaben-spezifischen Substituierbarkeit

Qualification	Tasks
Qualification	All tasks	Analytical routine	Analytical non-routine	Manual routine	Manual non-routine	Interactive (non-routine)
Aggregated (across skills)	0.0622	0.0884	0.0808	0.0696	0.0915	0.1036
Aggregated (across skills)	(0.0025)	(0.0048)	(0.0051)	(0.0071)	(0.0053)	(0.0055)
Low-skilled	0.0095	0.0073	0.0331	0.0130	0.0205	0.0506
Low-skilled	(0.0069)	(0.0106)	(0.0131)	(0.0168)	(0.0144)	(0.0115)
Medium skilled	0.0548	0.0771	0.0741	0.0533	0.0600	0.0827
Medium skilled	(0.0074)	(0.0082)	(0.0096)	(0.0080)	(0.0071)	(0.0092)
High-skilled	0.0592	0.0796	0.0356	0.0795	0.0523	0.0233
High-skilled	(0.0077)	(0.0111)	(0.0087)	(0.0144)	(0.0159)	(0.0084)

Standard errors in parenthesis
The estimations in the first column build on 400 (16 years×5 experience groups×5 tasks) observations, the estimations in the second to sixth column on 80 observations

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