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Title: Mixing the Melting Pot: The Impact of Immigration on Labor Markets
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Publication Year: 2017
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Abstract: Immigration to the United States is at the center of many debates. The issue is not new, not only in the U.S. but in many other parts of the world, as evidenced in the many discussions in the media, as well as in political and academic circles. For this paper, we looked at U.S. data across states to assess the connection between immigration and labor market outcomes. We were prompted by the argument that immigrants make life harder for workers who already are U.S. citizens. Specifically, we investigated the correlation between immigration and the unemployment rate and between immigration and wages. We used state-level data from the U.S. Census Bureau for the years 2000, 2005 and 2010 for wages and immigration figures. Immigrants are defined as those who are foreign-born.1 For wages, we used inflation-adjusted pretax wages and salary incomes of the employed population between the ages of 18 and 60. Finally, we used the Bureau of Labor Statistics seasonally adjusted unemployment rate.
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Authors: Vandenbroucke, Guillaume; Zhu, Heting
Publisher: The Regional Economist
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration
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