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Immigration, Labor Market Mobility, and the Earnings of Native‐Born Workers
Author(s) -
Pedace Roberto
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
american journal of economics and sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1536-7150
pISSN - 0002-9246
DOI - 10.1111/j.1536-7150.2006.00453.x
Subject(s) - immigration , earnings , native born , wage , labour economics , competition (biology) , economics , demographic economics , occupational mobility , market competition , order (exchange) , geography , market economy , biology , finance , ecology , accounting , archaeology
A bstract . This article seeks to improve on previous estimates of the impact of immigration on native wages by using an occupational segmentation approach that directly controls for regional migration and other shifts in the native‐born U.S. labor supply. The U.S. labor market is segmented by occupation in order to determine which, if any, native workers tend to be vulnerable to increased immigrant competition for jobs. The results suggest that native‐born workers in the primary sector are the main beneficiaries of increased immigration, while native‐born Hispanic females in the secondary sector are the most susceptible to downward wage pressures.