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Selective Immigration Policies and Wages Inequality
Author(s) -
Edo Anthony,
Toubal Farid
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
review of international economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.513
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1467-9396
pISSN - 0965-7576
DOI - 10.1111/roie.12163
Subject(s) - immigration , economics , wage , labour economics , wage inequality , inequality , immigration policy , estimation , real wages , dispersion (optics) , wage dispersion , native born , demographic economics , efficiency wage , political science , mathematical analysis , physics , mathematics , management , optics , law
We quantify the overall impact of immigration on native wages in F rance from 1990 to 2010. Our short‐run simulations indicate that immigration has decreased native wages by 0.6%. We find on average no impact of immigration on wages in the long run. However, we show that the long‐run effects of immigration on wages are detrimental to high‐skilled native workers and benefits to low‐skilled native workers. Our structural estimation allows us to evaluate the impact of “selective” migration policies. In particular, we find that selective immigration policies toward highly educated workers reduce the wage dispersion of French native workers.