| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w18515 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 18515 |
| Immigration and the Distribution of Incomes | |
| Francine D. Blau; Lawrence M. Kahn | |
| 发表日期 | 2012-11-01 |
| 出版年 | 2012 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We review research on the impact of immigration on income distribution. We discuss routes through which immigration can affect income distribution in the host and source countries, including compositional effects and effects on native incomes. Immigration may affect the composition of skills among the residents of a country. Moreover, immigrants can, by changing relative factor supplies, affect native wage and employment rates and the return to capital. We then provide evidence on the level and recent increases in immigration to OECD countries and on the distribution of native and immigrant educational attainment. We next provide a decomposition of 1979-2009 changes in US wage inequality, highlighting the effects of immigration on workforce composition. We then consider the economic theory of the impact of immigration on income distribution, emphasizing labor market substitution and complementarity between natives and immigrants. Further, by changing job opportunities or child care availability, immigrants can affect family, as well as individual, income distribution. We review research methodologies used to estimate the impact of immigration on the native income distribution. These include the structural approach (estimating substitution and complementarity among factors of production, including capital and labor force groups) as well as the natural experiment approach (seeking exogenous sources of variation in immigration) to studying the labor market. We then discuss evidence on these questions for Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Portugal, Spain and the United States, as well as the impact of emigration on source country income distribution. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Market Structure and Distribution ; Labor Economics ; Labor Compensation ; Unemployment and Immigration |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w18515 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/576189 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Francine D. Blau,Lawrence M. Kahn. Immigration and the Distribution of Incomes. 2012. |
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