The Impact of Immigrants on Host Country Wages, Employment and Growth

Friedberg, Rachel M.; Hunt, Jennifer

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“…Second, in line with the mixed empirical evidence on the impact of immigration, many scholars have pointed out that when we move away from the FP analysis and consider more sophisticated economic models, it becomes very difficult to make clear predictions about the equilibrium effects of immigration on wages and employment opportunities among native workers (see Friedberg and Hunt 1995;Gaston the FP model, although widely taken as central in the literature, are far from general (see discussion below). 3 For general reviews about the impact of immigration on wages and employment see for example Bhagwati (2002), Borjas (1999), Card (2005), Friedberg and Hunt (1995), and Longhi, Nijkamp, and Poot (2005).…”

Section: Labor Market Competitionmentioning

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Attitudes toward Highly Skilled and Low-skilled Immigration: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

2010

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W hy do people oppose or favor immigration?Recent scholarly work examining survey data on individual attitudes toward immigration has generated inconsistent findings and no clear consensus view. Many studies suggest that opposition to immigration is primarily driven by noneconomic concerns associated with cultural and ethnic tensions between native and immigrant populations (Bauer, Lofstrom, and Zimmerman 2000;Burns and Gimpel 2000;Chandler and Tsai 2001;Citrin et al. 1997;Dustmann and Preston 2007;Espenshade and Hempstead 1996;Fetzer 2000;Gang, Rivera-Batiz, and Yun 2002;Lahav 2004;McLaren 2003). These studies emphasize noneconomic differences between individuals in terms of ethnocentrism and ideology in explaining attitudes toward immigrants and connect to an extensive body of empirical research indicating that material self-interest rarely plays a role in shaping people's opinions about major policy issues (Kinder and Sears 1981;Sears and Funk 1990;Sears et al. 1980).A very different set of studies argue that material economic concerns lie at the heart of anti-immigrant Both authors are affiliated with Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) which generously provided funding for the survey. We thank Alberto Abadie, George Borjas, Giovanni Facchini, Gordon Hanson, Gary King, David Lynch, Anna Mayda, Dani Rodrik, Ken Scheve, Matthew Slaughter, Dustin Tingley, the co-editors, and five anonymous reviewers for very helpful comments. The usual disclaimer applies.

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Section: Labor Market Competitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Attitudes toward Highly Skilled and Low-skilled Immigration: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

2010

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“…For example, a review by Friedberg and Hunt (1995) indicated that a 10-percent increase in the proportion of immigrants in the population reduced native wages by 1 percent at most. The most plausible estimates identified by Smith and Edmonston (1997) suggested that the influx of immigrants starting in 1980 had reduced the wages of high school dropouts by about 5 percent, leading them to conclude that "immigration has had only a relatively small adverse impact on the wage and employment opportunities of competing native groups" (p. 7).…”

Section: Text Box 31 Literature On Immigrants and Wages Of Nativesmentioning

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A Cost-Benefit Framework for Analyzing the Economic and Fiscal Impacts of State-Level Immigration Policies

Karoly¹,

Pérez‐Arce²

2016

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This document and trademark(s) contained herein are protected by law. This representation of RAND intellectual property is provided for noncommercial use only. Unauthorized posting of this publication online is prohibited. Permission is given to duplicate this document for personal use only, as long as it is unaltered and complete. Permission is required from RAND to reproduce, or reuse in another form, any of its research documents for commercial use. For information on reprint and linking permissions, please visit www.rand.org/pubs/permissions.html.The RAND Corporation is a research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges to help make communities throughout the world safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous. RAND is nonprofit, nonpartisan, and committed to the public interest.RAND's publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors.Support RAND Make a tax-deductible charitable contribution at www.rand.org/giving/contribute www.rand.org For more information on this publication, visit www.rand.org/t/rr1397Published by the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, Calif. © Copyright 2016 RAND CorporationR® is a registered trademark.iii Preface Traditionally, immigration policy has been a federal responsibility, but, in the past decade, states have begun to adopt policies through legislation and other actions to respond to trends in unauthorized immigration. In some states, policies have taken the form of omnibus legislation designed to place restrictions on immigrants who are in the United States without authorization, through actions of law enforcement and employers, as well as limits in other aspects of public life. In other states, policies have been adopted one by one, such as requiring employers in the public and private sectors to verify employment eligibility through E-Verify, to preclude access to driver's licenses for individuals who are not authorized to be in the country, and to exclude unauthorized students from eligibility for in-state tuition at public colleges and universities. At the same time, some states have also adopted policies toward unauthorized immigrants that are unrestrictive-for example, by making driver's licenses available to all regardless of immigration status or basing access to in-state tuition solely on residency requirements, regardless of immigration status.The expanding role of states in these areas of policy raises questions about the consequences of state-level action for various stakeholders in the public and private sectors. Within this context, the goals of this study are to• develop a cost-benefit framework for classifying the potential impacts of specific statelevel policies, identifying the potential domains of impact and how different stakeholders in the public and private sectors would be affected • review the research literature to identify empirical evidence, where it exists, regarding the likely magnitudes of the impacts of specific state-level immigration-related policies • use the cost-benefit fr...

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“…This field distinguishes three streams of research: the economic performance of the immigrants, their effect on employment opportunities and wages of the natives and the assessment of immigration policies for host countries (surveys by Borjas (1994Borjas ( , 1999; Friedberg and Hunt (1995)). The effect of immigration on natives' wages and labor market responses are certainly the most discussed while macro-economic effects from immigration lack attention in the literature (Drinkwater et al, 2007).…”

Section: Economic Effects Of Migrationmentioning

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Immigration and the Diffusion of Technology: The Huguenot Diaspora in Prussia

Hornung

2014

American Economic Review

204

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. This paper analyzes the long-term effect of technological diffusion on productivity caused by immigration of skilled workers. In 1685 religious persecution drove highly skilled Huguenots into the backward BrandenburgPrussia where they established themselves and transferred technological knowledge to natives. We find that textile manufactories installed in towns hosting the Huguenots achieved higher productivity than others due to diffusion, even 100 years after immigration. Identification is based on an instrumental variable approach exploiting variation in the settlement of Huguenots which results from population losses due to plagues during the Thirty Years' War, effectively eliminating worries of selectivity in the settlement pattern. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may

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The Impact of Immigrants on Host Country Wages, Employment and Growth

Cited by 770 publications

References 14 publications

Attitudes toward Highly Skilled and Low-skilled Immigration: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

Attitudes toward Highly Skilled and Low-skilled Immigration: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

A Cost-Benefit Framework for Analyzing the Economic and Fiscal Impacts of State-Level Immigration Policies

Immigration and the Diffusion of Technology: The Huguenot Diaspora in Prussia

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