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Title: A New Look At Immigration and Employment in the U.S. Since 2005

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Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: The foreign-born share of the U.S. population has been gradually rising in recent decades and is approaching its historic maximum. Areas that have not traditionally received immigrants have experienced greater increases in the foreign-born share than have other areas with persistently high levels of immigration. This raises clear questions about the macroeconomic impacts of immigration on native workers. Economic theory suggests that immigration shifts out labor supply, reducing wages for natives in the short run because labor demand is downward sloping, and raising unemployment among natives if wages do not fall. Although theoretically sound and widely cited in the U.S. immigration debate, this static view has received mixed support in the scientific literature. Researchers continue to debate whether influxes of immigrants like the Mariel Boatlift of 1980 reduced wages or employment among native workers in Miami, with a body of empirical evidence that often appears ambiguous. . .

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Authors: Edwards, Ryan, D; Liu, Mao-Mei

Publisher: UC Berkeley

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration

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