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Title: The Impact of Low-Skilled Immigration on the Youth Labor Market

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2012

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Abstract: The employment to population rate of high school-aged youth has fallen by about 20 percentage points since the late 1980s. One potential explanation is increased competition from substitutable labor, such as immigrants. I demonstrate that the increase in the population of less educated immigrants has had a considerably more negative effect on employment outcomes for native youth than for native adults. At least two factors are at work: there is greater overlap between the jobs that youth and less educated adult immigrants traditionally do, and youth labor supply appears more responsive to immigration-induced wage changes.

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Authors: Smith, Christopher L.

Periodical (Full): Journal of Labor Economics

Issue: 1

Volume: 30

Pages: 55-89

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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