THE IMPACT OF IMMIGRATION ON THE STRUCTURE OF WAGES: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM BRITAIN

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Manacorda, Marco; Manning, Alan; Wadsworth, Jonathan
• 署名单位: University of London; Queen Mary University London; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of London; Royal Holloway University London
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1542-4766
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-4774.2011.01049.x
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: 120-151
• 关键词: labor; performance; natives; inflows

摘要

Immigration to the UK, particularly among more educated workers, has risen appreciably over the past 30 years and as such has raised labor supply. However studies of the impact of immigration have failed to find any significant effect on the wages of native-born workers in the UK. This is potentially puzzling since there is evidence that changes in the supply of educated natives have had significant effects on their wages. Using a pooled time series of British cross-sectional micro data on male wages and employment from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s, this paper offers one possible resolution to this puzzle, namely that in the UK natives and foreign born workers are imperfect substitutes. We show that immigration has primarily reduced the wages of immigrantsand in particular of university educated immigrantswith little discernable effect on the wages of the native-born.