Attenuation bias in measuring the wage impact of immigration
By: Abdurrahman Aydemir, George J. Borjas
Contributors: Borjas, George J.; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16229; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16229.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Description: "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 workforce.  After controlling for permanent factors that determine wages in specific labor markets, little variation remains in the immigrant share.  We find significant sampling error in this measure of supply shifts in Canadian and U.S.  Census data.  Correcting for the resulting attenuation bias can substantially increase existing estimates of the wage impact of immigration"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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