| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP16432 |
| DP16432 Labor Market Competition and the Assimilation of Immigrants | |
| Christoph Albert; Albrecht Glitz; Joan Llull | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-08-07 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | In this paper, we show that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between individual skill accumulation and dynamic equilibrium effects in the labor market. When immigrants and natives are imperfect substitutes, increasing immigrant inflows widen the wage gap between them. Using a simple production function framework, we show that this labor market competition channel can explain about one quarter of the large increase in the average immigrant-native wage gap in the United States between the 1960s and 1990s arrival cohorts. Once competition effects and compositional changes in education and region of origin are accounted for, we find that the unobservable skills of newly arriving immigrants increased over time rather than decreased as traditionally argued in the literature. We corroborate this finding by documenting closely matching patterns for immigrants' English language proficiency. |
| 主题 | Labour Economics |
| 关键词 | Immigrant assimilation Labor market competition Cohort sizes Imperfect substitution General and specific skills |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp16432 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/545393 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Christoph Albert,Albrecht Glitz,Joan Llull. DP16432 Labor Market Competition and the Assimilation of Immigrants. 2021. |
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