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Title: Immigration and wages of U.S. native workers in recent decades
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2012
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Abstract: This dissertation empirically evaluates how wages of U.S. native workers in various education levels, occupations, and industries, are affected by immigration in recent decades. Across education and occupation, the results confirm common expectations that less educated or less skilled native workers are more negatively affected by immigration than more highly educated or highly skilled native workers. However, the reason is not the larger volume of less educated immigrants in recent decades intensifying competition in those skill levels. Rather, it is due to the nature of tasks prevalent among less educated and less skilled occupation holders. Among less skilled native workers, only those that work in certain industries are negatively affected by immigration. Industries seem to respond differently to the availability of less skilled immigrants, leading to differential wage impacts across industries. In particular, the findings are consistent with the theory that industries that use less skilled workers intensively are able to expand as less skilled immigrant workers are more readily available, allowing these industries to absorb immigrants without a negative impact on wages of less skilled . . .
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Authors: SrungBoonmee, Tanyamat
Institution: The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Department: Economics
Advisor: Drewianka, Scott D.
Degree: Ph.D
Publisher Location: Milwaukee
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other
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