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Title: The Uniformity of Immigration's Effect on Wages

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Publication Year: 2008

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Abstract: Using the same approach and model found in Peri & Ottaviano (2006), this paper analyzes the effect of immigration on native wages from 1990-2004. Instead of examining the effects on a national scale, this analysis divides the country into four separate regions. This paper supports the conclusion that the effect of immigration on wages is small, less than one percent in some regions, but does not support the conclusion found in Peri & Ottaviano that immigration has increased native wages. Additionally, changing the order of aggregation in Peri & Ottaviano’s model leads to different estimates for wages. This suggests a theoretical weakness in using nested constant elasticity of substitution functions to describe different skill groups of labor’s contribution to output.

Url: https://as.vanderbilt.edu/econ/documents/2008-honors-gutman.pdf

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Authors: Gutman, Tommy

Publisher: Vanderbilt University

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Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Other

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