Does immigration affect wages?
Subtitle: a look at occupation-level evidence
By: Pia M. Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny.
Contributors: Zavodny, Madeline.
Series: Research Department working paper ;; 0302; Working paper (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Research Dept. : Online) ;; 0302.
Publisher: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Published: 2003
Place of publication: [Dallas, Tx.]
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Alien labor -- United States; Wages -- United States; United States -- Emigration and immigration
Description: "Previous research has reached mixed conclusions about whether higher levels of immigration reduce the wages of natives. This paper reexamines this question using data from the Current Population Survey and the Immigration and Naturalization Service and focuses on differential effects by skill level. Using occupation as a proxy for skill, we find that an increase in the fraction of workers in an occupation group who are foreign born tends to lower the wages of low-skilled natives--particularly after controlling for endogeneity--but does not have a negative effect among skilled natives"--Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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