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Title: Technological Change and Immigration Policy

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Publication Year: 2011

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Abstract: We propose a dynamic general equilibrium model to address the effects of tech- nological progress on immigrant skill composition. Our results from this positive model suggest that neutral and skill-biased technological change imply essentially different immigration policies. On the one hand, skill-neutral change implies an immigrant skill distribution that is dominated by the native skill distribution; on the other hand, skill-biased change implies an immigrant over-representation at the top and bottom of the skill distribution. This result is interesting because of its un- expected nature. It implies that if technology changes as it has in the last decades and education has an increasing cost, then it is optimal to allow some low-skill im- migration along with high-skill immigration. We show consistency of our model’s predictions with data from the United States and Canada.

Url: https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/63705/1/MPRA_paper_63705.pdf

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Authors: Gomez-Ruano, Gerardo

Publisher: MPRA

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration

Countries: United States