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Title: Diversity in Segmention. Patterns of Immigrant Competition in US Labor Markets

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: Competition between immigrant and native workers takes place in labor markets that are segmented along various, often unobservable dimensions. It is desirable to measure the extent to which native workers are effectively shielded from competition by immigrant workers by virtue of such patterns of segmentation. This paper proposes measures of group differences in labor market segmentation on the basis of incomplete data, such as can be obtained from the US Census. These measures are derived from a general class of models of labor competition in the Smithian tradition. The observed wage distributions of native and foreign-born workers in the United States (at the national and metropolitan level) can be approximated remarkably well with this class of model, suggesting that a parsimonious account of wage inequality is feasible.

Url: http://www.economicpolicyresearch.org/econ/2019/NSSR_WP_012019.pdf

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Authors: Wiener, Noe

Series Title: Working Paper Series

Publication Number: 01/2019

Institution: The New School for Social Research

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Publisher Location: New York, NY

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Other

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