The Labor Demand Curve is Downward Sloping: Reexamining the Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market

GJ Borjas - The quarterly journal of economics, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Immigration is not evenly balanced across groups of workers who have the same education
but differ in their work experience, and the nature of the supply imbalance changes over …

Immigration and national wages: Clarifying the theory and the empirics

GIP Ottaviano, G Peri - 2008 - nber.org
This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national
US level. Following Borjas (2003) we focus on national labor markets for workers of different …

The impact of immigration: Why do studies reach such different results?

C Dustmann, U Schönberg, J Stuhler - Journal of Economic …, 2016 - aeaweb.org
We classify the empirical literature on the wage impact of immigration into three groups,
where studies in the first two groups estimate different relative effects, and studies in the third …

Attenuation bias in measuring the wage impact of immigration

A Aydemir, GJ Borjas - Journal of Labor Economics, 2011 - journals.uchicago.edu
Although economic theory predicts an inverse relation between relative wages and
immigration-induced supply shifts, it has been difficult to document such effects. The weak …

Immigrants, productivity, and labor markets

G Peri - Journal of economic perspectives, 2016 - aeaweb.org
Immigration has been a steady force acting on population and employment within countries
throughout human history. Focusing on the last four decades, we show that the mix of …

The economic analysis of immigration

GJ Borjas - Handbook of labor economics, 1999 - Elsevier
The study of labor flows across labor markets is a central ingredient in any discussion of
labor market equilibrium. These labor flows help markets reach a more efficient allocation of …

Searching for the Effect of Immigration on the Labor Market

GJ Borjas, RB Freeman, LF Katz - 1996 - nber.org
We compare two approaches to analyzing the effects of immigration on the labor market and
find that the estimated effect of immigration on US native labor outcomes depends critically …

Does immigration grease the wheels of the labor market?

GJ Borjas - Brookings papers on economic activity, 2001 - muse.jhu.edu
MOST STUDIES OF the economic impact of immigration are motivated by the desire to
understand how immigrants affect various dimensions of economic status in the population …

Immigration and Wages: Evidence from the 1980's

KF Butcher, D Card - The American Economic Review, 1991 - JSTOR
More immigrants entered the United States during the past decade than in any comparable
period since the 1920's. Among the issues raised by this influx, none is as controversial as …

Comment: The elusive search for negative wage impacts of immigration

D Card - Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Labor demand curves slope down. 1 From this statement it is a short leap to the Malthusian
proposition that an increase in the supply of workers reduces wages. So short is the leap, in …