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Title: The impact of immigration on the labor market for native-born workers: Incorporating the dynamics of internal migration
Citation Type: Journal Article
Publication Year: 1998
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Abstract: The dramatic increase in immigration over the past two decades has led to a growing concern about its impact on the labor market outcomes of native-born workers. There now exists an expanding body of literature that attempts to address these two questions. Do immigrants depress the earnings of native-born workers by competing with them for jobs? Do immigrants reduce the employment levels of natives? However, one crucial and well recognized flaw remains: namely, the failure in existing empirical studies to capture the dynamics of internal migration of natives in response to increased immigration [Card, 1990; Butcher and Card, 1991; Borjas, 1994; Borjas, Freeman, and Katz, 1996]. This paper utilizes a unique approach developed in the demography literature to obtain better estimates of the impact of immigration on natives’ wages and employment by directly controlling for internal migration flows.
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Authors: Pedace, Roberto
Periodical (Full): Eastern Economic Journal
Issue: 4
Volume: 24
Pages: 449-462
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration
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