Does Immigration Affect Wages?  A Look at Occupation-Level Evidence

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline

doi:10.2139/ssrn.382000

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“…The first uses the Current Population Survey (CPS) or other national survey data to examine how employment responses vary with exposure to state and federal MW laws. Applying panel techniques to estimate employment effects for teenagers or low‐skilled workers, these studies typically (but not always) obtain evidence of adverse employment effects, with employment elasticities on the order of –0.2 to –0.3 (Burkhauser, Couch, and Wittenburg : Neumark and Wascher ; Sabia ; see Orrenius and Zavodny for an exception).…”

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Minimum Wage Channels of Adjustment

Hirsch¹,

Kaufman²,

Zelenska³

2015

Industrial Relations

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The effects of minimum wage increases in [2007][2008][2009] are analyzed using a sample of restaurants from Georgia/Alabama. Store-level payroll records provide precise measures of compliance costs. Examined are multiple adjustment channels. Exploiting variation in compliance costs across restaurants, we find employment and hours responses to be variable and in most cases statistically insignificant. Channels of adjustment to wage increases and to changes in non-labor costs include prices, profits, wage compression, turnover, and performance standards.

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Minimum Wage Channels of Adjustment

Hirsch¹,

Kaufman²,

Zelenska³

2015

Industrial Relations

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“…During the late 1980s, Card (2001) estimates, immigration reduced low-skilled workers' wages only slightly. Extending the analysis into the early 2000s, Ottaviano & Peri (2008) and Orrenius & Zavodny (2007) considered the negative effect to be even lower. By contrast, Borjas (2003) concludes immigration's effect on workers without a high school education is much stronger, though he notes little or no impact on better-educated workers.…”

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Immigrants and African Americans

2014

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We examine how recent immigration to the United States has affected African Americans. We first review the research on the growing diversity within the black population, driven largely by the presence of black immigrants from the Caribbean and Africa. As their children and grandchildren come of age, relations between immigrants and African Americans are complicated by the fact that a growing portion of the African American community has origins in both groups. We then review literature on both new destinations and established gateway cities to illustrate the patterns of cooperation, competition, and avoidance between immigrants of diverse races and African Americans in neighborhoods, the labor market, and politics. We explore the implications of the population's increasing racial diversity owing to immigration for policies that aim to promote racial equality but that are framed in terms of diversity. We conclude with suggestions for new areas of research. 369 Annu. Rev. Sociol. 2014.40:369-390. Downloaded from www.annualreviews.org Access provided by University of Connecticut on 02/03/15. For personal use only.

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“…Friedberg (2001) looks at the unexpected 1990–1994 shock to the Israeli labour market of Russian immigrants identifying effects from occupation level data (using Russian occupations as an instrument) and finds essentially no effect on Israeli wages. Orrenius and Zavodny (2007) use data on occupation and region over time to estimate the effects of immigration and find statistically significant, but small effects. It should be noted that Borjas has produced other papers showing essentially perfect substitutability and large effects (Aydemir and Borjas, 2007; Borjas et al.…”

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