The large inflow of less-educated immigrants into the United States in recent decades may have affected US natives’ labor market outcomes in many ways, including their working conditions. Although the general consensus is that low-skilled immigrants tend to hold “worse” jobs than US natives, the impact of immigration on natives’ working conditions has received little attention. This study examines how immigration has affected US natives’ occupational exposure to workplace hazards and the compensating differential paid for such exposure from 1990 to 2018. Results indicate that immigration causes less-educated natives’ exposure to workplace hazards to fall, and instrumental variables results show a larger impact among women than among men. The corresponding compensating differential appears to fall among men, but not after accounting for immigration-induced changes in the financial returns to occupational skills.

近几十年来，受教育程度较低的移民大量涌入美国，这可能在许多方面影响了美国本地人的劳动力市场结果，包括他们的工作条件。尽管普遍的共识是低技能移民往往比美国本地人从事“更糟糕”的工作，但移民对本地人工作条件的影响却很少受到关注。本研究考察了移民如何影响美国本地人在 1990 年至 2018 年期间对工作场所危害的职业暴露以及为此类暴露支付的补偿差异。结果表明，移民导致受教育程度较低的当地人对工作场所危害的暴露程度下降，工具变量结果显示对女性的影响大于对男性的影响。相应的补偿差异似乎落在男性之间，