Immigration and Wages: Evidence From the 1980s
American Economic Review
1991
This paper presents new evidence on the effects of immigration based on changes in the distributions of wages in 24 major [U.S.] cities during the 1980s....We...concentrate on measuring the effects of immigration at the lower tail of the wage distribution. In particular we ask whether recent declines in the real earnings of the least-skilled workers in the U.S. economy are related to immigration. Our empirical analysis reveals large differences across cities in the relative growth rates of wages for low- and high-paid workers. Nevertheless these differences bear little or no relation to the size of immigrant inflows. (EXCERPT)
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