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Title: Estimating the Effect of Immigration on Wages

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2011

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Abstract: We discuss approaches to estimating the effect that immigration has on wages of native workers which assume a three-level CES model, where immigrants and natives are allowed to be imperfect substitutes within an age-education cell, and predict the wage impact based on estimates of the elasticities of substitution at each level. We argue that this approach is sensitive to immigrants downgrading at arrival, and we illustrate the possible bias in estimating the elasticity of substitution between immigrants and natives.

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Authors: Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian

Series Title: Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration Discussion Paper Series

Publication Number: 21/11

Institution: Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration

Pages: 10

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Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration

Countries: United States