Immigration and US native workers’ wages: differential responses by education
Author:
SrungBoonmee Tanyamat
Abstract
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to assess how wages of US native workers with various educational backgrounds are affected by immigration.Design/methodology/approachThis paper estimates the responses of these workers’ wages to the concentration of immigrants with various educational backgrounds in their local labour markets, using 1980‐2000 US Census data and instrumental variables approach.FindingsWages of native high school dropouts fall slightly in the presence of immigrant high school dropouts and high school graduates; wages of native high school graduates fall slightly in the presence of immigrant high school graduates, but rise in the presence of immigrants with higher levels of education; wages of native workers with some college education fall slightly with larger concentrations of immigrant high school graduates but rise slightly with larger concentrations of immigrant college graduates; and there is no evidence that wages of native college graduates are affected by immigration.Originality/valueNo previous studies have considered these possibilities when assessing the impact of immigration on native workers’ wages.
Subject
Management of Technology and Innovation,Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management,Strategy and Management
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