| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w17609
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 17609
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| Immigrant-Native Substitutability: The Role of Language Ability |
| Ethan G. Lewis
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| 发表日期 | 2011-11-17
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| 出版年 | 2011
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Wage evidence suggests that immigrant workers are imperfectly substitutable for native-born workers with similar education and experience. Using U.S. Censuses and recent American Community Survey data, I ask to what extent differences in language skills drive this. I find they are important. I estimate that the response of immigrants' relative wages to immigration is concentrated among immigrants with poor English skills. Similarly, immigrants who arrive at young ages, as adults, both have stronger English skills and exhibit greater substitutability for native-born workers than immigrants who arrive older. In U.S. markets where Spanish speakers are concentrated, I find a "Spanish-speaking" labor market emerges: in such markets, the return to speaking English is low, and the wages of Spanish and non-Spanish speakers respond most strongly to skill ratios in their own language group. Finally, in Puerto Rico, where almost all workers speak Spanish, I find immigrants and natives are perfect substitutes. The implications for immigrant poverty and regional settlement patterns are analyzed. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics
; Labor Supply and Demand
; Labor Compensation
; Unemployment and Immigration
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w17609
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/575284
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