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Title: "Dude, Where's My Job?" The Impact of Immigration on the Youth Labor Market

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Publication Year: 2007

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Abstract: Most studies about the labor market impact of immigration limit their analysis tothe adult native population. This paper shows that teen employment is significantlymore responsive than adult employment to immigration, and that growth in low-skilledimmigration appears to be an important cause of recent declines in teen employmentrates. Using variation in immigrant shares across metropolitan areas between 1980and 2000, I show that the impact of immigration on youth employment is at leasttwice as large as the impact on adults, and that immigration aects school enrollmentdecisions and the type of jobs held by native youth. These eects are strongest for blackyouth and youth from poorer and less educated families. The estimates suggest that a10 percentage point increase in the immigrant share of a city's low-skilled populationreduces the teen employment rate by 5 percentage points, implying that up to halfof the fall in teen employment between 1990 and 2005 can be explained by increasedimmigration.

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Authors: Smith, Christopher L.

Publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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