全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Immigration and Occupational Comparative Advantage

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w29418
来源ID	Working Paper 29418
	Immigration and Occupational Comparative Advantage
	Gordon H. Hanson; Chen Liu
发表日期	2021-11-01
出版年	2021
语种	英语
摘要	Job choice by high-skilled foreign-born workers in the US correlates strongly with country of origin. We apply a Fréchet-Roy model of occupational choice to evaluate the causes of immigrant sorting. In a gravity specification, we find that revealed comparative advantage in the US is stronger for workers from countries with higher education quality in occupations that are more intensive in cognitive reasoning, and for workers from countries that are more linguistically similar to the US in occupations that are more intensive in communication. Our findings hold for immigrants who arrived in the US at age 18 or older (who received their K-12 education abroad) but not for immigrants who arrived in the US as children (who received their K-12 education domestically). We obtain similar results for immigrant sorting in Canada, which supports our interpretation that origin-country education quality, rather than US immigration policy, is what drives sorting patterns. In counterfactual analysis, we evaluate the consequences of reallocating visas for college-educated immigrants according to origin-country education quality.
主题	International Economics ; International Factor Mobility ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Unemployment and Immigration ; Development and Growth ; Development
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w29418
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/587092
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gordon H. Hanson,Chen Liu. Immigration and Occupational Comparative Advantage. 2021.

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