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Title: Immigration and the Human Capital of Natives

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: Large low-skilled immigration flows influence both the distribution of local school resources and also local relative wages, which exert counterbalancing pressures on the local return to schooling. I use the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS:88) and U.S. Census data to show that low-skilled immigration to an area induces local natives to improve their performance in school, attain more years of schooling, and take jobs that involve communication-intensive tasks for which they (native English speakers) have a comparative advantage. These results point out mechanisms that mitigate the potentially negative effect of immigration on natives' wages.

Url: https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_human_resources/v050/50.1.mchenry.html

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Authors: McHenry, Peter

Periodical (Full): Journal of Human Resources

Issue: 1

Volume: 50

Pages: 34-71

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration

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