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A Comparative Analysis of the Labor Market Impact of International Migration: Canada, Mexico, and the United States / Abdurrahman Aydemir, George J. Borjas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aydemir, Abdurrahman.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w12327.
- NBER working paper series no. w12327
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- A Comparative Analysis of the Labor Market Impact of International Migration
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2006.
- Summary:
- Using data drawn from the Canadian, Mexican, and U.S. Censuses, we find a numerically comparable and statistically significant inverse relation between immigrant-induced shifts in labor supply and wages in each of the three countries: A 10 percent labor supply shift is associated with a 3 to 4 percent opposite-signed change in wages. Despite the similarity in the wage response, the impact of migration on the wage structure differs significantly across countries. International migration narrowed wage inequality in Canada; increased it in the United States; and reduced the relative wage of workers at the bottom of the skill distribution in Mexico.
- Notes:
- June 2006.
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