Immigration, Labor Market Mobility, and the Earnings of Native-Born Workers. An Occupational Segmentation Approach
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Immigration, Labor Market Mobility, and the Earnings of Native-born Workers: An Occupational Segmentation Approach
This paper 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 native-born labor supply. The 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. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Economics and Sociology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0002-9246,1536-7150
DOI: 10.1111/j.1536-7150.2006.00453.x