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The Ethnic Segregation of Immigrants in the United States from 1850 to 1940
Eriksson, Katherine - 2018
We provide the first estimates of ethnic segregation between 1850 and 1940 that cover the entire United States and are … consistent across time and space. To do so, we adapt the Logan-Parman method to immigrants by measuring segregation based on the … nativity of the next-door neighbor. In addition to providing a consistent measure of segregation, we also document new patterns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915652
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Wage Inequality and Segregation by Skill
Kremer, Michael; Maskin, Eric - 2021
greater segregation of high- and low-skill workers into separate firms. A model in which workers of different skill-levels are … imperfect substitutes can simultaneously account for these increases in segregation and inequality either through technological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246994
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Attenuation Bias in Measuring the Wage Impact of Immigration
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2010
Although economic theory predicts an inverse relation between relative wages and immigration-induced supply shifts, it has been difficult to document such effects. The weak evidence may be partly due to sampling error in a commonly used measure of the supply shift, the immigrant share of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139753
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Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants
Goel, Deepti - 2010
We show that increasing the probability of obtaining a job offer through a network should raise the observed wages of workers in jobs found through formal channels relative to those in jobs found through the network. This prediction holds at all percentiles except the highest and lowest. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152088
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Labor Outflows and Labor Inflows in Puerto Rico
Borjas, George J. - 2008
Although a sizable fraction of the Puerto Rican-born population moved to the United States, the island also received large inflows of persons born outside Puerto Rico. Hence Puerto Rico provides a unique setting for examining how labor inflows and outflows coexist, and measuring the mirror-image...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773152
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Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives : Evidence from Hurricane Mitch
Kugler, Adriana D. - 2010
In the 1980s the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the misfortunes of unskilled workers in the U.S. OLS estimates using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758439
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The Labor Market Impact of Immigration in Western Germany in the 1990's
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - 2010
We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759463
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Immigration and National Wages : Clarifying the Theory and the Empirics
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - 2008
This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national U.S. level. Following Borjas (2003) we focus on national labor markets for workers of different skills and we enrich his methodology and refine previous estimates. We emphasize that a production function...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012770873
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The Analytics of the Wage Effect of Immigration
Borjas, George J. - 2021
The theory of factor demand has important implications for the study of the impact of immigration on wages. This paper derives the theoretical implications in the context of a general equilibrium model where the wage impact depends on the elasticity of product demand, the rate at which the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013312501
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Employer Policies and the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap
Dostie, Benoit; Li, Jiang; Card, David; Parent, Daniel - 2022
We use longitudinal data from the income tax system to study the impacts of firms’ employment and wage-setting policies on the level and change in immigrant-native wage differences in Canada. We focus on immigrants who arrived in the early 2000s, distinguishing between those with and without a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013308491