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Title: Does Migration Cause Income Inequality?

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Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: Inequality has been rising across the world in recent decades. Latin America has been an exception to what otherwise seems to be the prevalent trend in the U.S., Europe and Asia. In the U.S. the rise in inequality since the 1970s has coincided with the rise in Mexican immigration. In Mexico, inequality has been declining since the mid-1990s, a period during which emigration to the U.S. first increased to historic highs and then declined steeply. Our review of the literature suggests that low-skilled immigration to the U.S., much of it from Mexico, has only played a minor role in rising income and wage inequality. To the extent that there is an effect, it has come through the presence of immigrants, and less as a result of immigration’s effect on natives’ wages. Immigrants’ bimodal skill distribution, with clustering at the top . . .

Url: https://scholar.smu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=texasmexico-research

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Authors: Orrenius, Pia, M; Zavodny, Madeline

Publisher: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration, Other

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