Immigrant inflows, native outflows, and the local labor market impacts of higher immigration

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Card, D
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Berkeley
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/209979
• 发表日期: 2001
• 页码: 22-64
• 关键词: UNITED-STATES; internal migration; wages; explanations; 1980S

摘要

This article uses 1990 census data to study the effects of immigrant inflows on occupation-specific labor market outcomes. I find that intercity mobility rates of natives and earlier immigrants are insensitive to immigrant inflows. However, occupation-specific wages and employment rates are systematically lower in cities with higher relative supplies of workers in a given occupation. The results imply that immigrant inflows over the 1980s reduced wages and employment rates of low-skilled natives in traditional gateway cities like Miami and Los Angeles by 1-3 percentage points.