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Title: Do immigrant workers depress the wages of native workers? Short-term wage effects of immigrants are close to zero—and in the long term immigrants can boost productivity and wages
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Publication Year: 2014
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Abstract: Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers, but 30 years of empirical research provide little supporting evidence to this claim. Most studies for industrialized countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and only modest effects on wage differentials between more and less educated immigrant and native workers. Native workers’ wages have been insulated by differences in skills, adjustments in local demand and technology, production expansion, and specialization of native workers as immigration rises.
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Authors: Peri, Giovanni
Publisher: University of California, Davis, USA, and IZA
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration
Countries: United States