IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wly/mgtdec/v45y2024i1p428-445.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Strategic employment of immigrant and native workers: Was the green card lottery a game changer?

Author

Listed:
  • W. David Allen

Abstract

This paper examines how employers strategically use immigrant and native workers, within the empirical setting of the U.S. Diversity Immigrant Visa (DIV) program and the National Football League (NFL). Strategic organizations determine their own optimal immigrant‐native mix and consider similar actions and reactions by rival employers, a noncooperative game. DIVs exogenously increased the labor market presence of immigrants. I exploit this fact to examine how NFL clubs subsequently altered their employment of immigrant players. Panel‐based empirical analysis illustrates the hypothesized prevalence of matching in immigrant use among rival clubs, sensitivity of that equilibrium to immigration era, and heterogeneous occupational and organizational consequences.

Suggested Citation

  • W. David Allen, 2024. "Strategic employment of immigrant and native workers: Was the green card lottery a game changer?," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 45(1), pages 428-445, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:mgtdec:v:45:y:2024:i:1:p:428-445
    DOI: 10.1002/mde.4013
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/mde.4013
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1002/mde.4013?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wly:mgtdec:v:45:y:2024:i:1:p:428-445. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/7976 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.