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Title: Immigration and Native Wages: A New Look

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Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: Prior studies have examined the impact of immigration on native born wages. These studies have relied upon education-experience groups to define labor markets and identify the wage elasticity of supply of immigrants. However, evidence suggests that education is either of different quality or at least treated differently for immigrants leading to potentially biased conclusions. We utilize O*NET occupational characteristics to form a different set of labor markets. Our analysis finds higher impact on native born wages than prior work, as expected. While prior work finds that a 10% increase in immigrant workers results in a 2% decrease in earnings, our results suggest that a decrease of 4.5% to 6% is more likely.

Url: http://christopherbollinger.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/NewNativeWage_Revised.pdf

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Authors: Sharpe, James; Bollinger, Christopher

Publisher: Berry College

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Poverty and Welfare

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