Cross-country variation in the impact of international migration: Canada, Mexico, and the United States

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Borjas, George J.
• 署名单位: Statistics Canada; Harvard University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1542-4766
• DOI: 10.1162/JEEA.2007.5.4.663
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 663-708
• 关键词: labor; wages; immigrants

摘要

Using data drawn from the Canadian, Mexican, and U.S. censuses, we find a numerically comparable and statistically significant inverse relation between immigrant-induced shifts in labor supply and wages in each of the three countries: A 10% labor supply shift is associated with a 3%-4% opposite-signed change in wages. Despite the similarity in the wage response, the impact of migration on the wage structure differs significantly across countries. International migration narrowed wage inequality in Canada; increased it in the United States; and reduced the relative wage of workers at the bottom of the skill distribution in Mexico.