A SEARCH-EQUILIBRIUM APPROACH TO THE EFFECTS OF IMMIGRATION ON LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Chassamboulli, Andri; Palivos, Theodore
• 署名单位: University of Cyprus; Athens University of Economics & Business
• 刊物名称: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0020-6598
• DOI: 10.1111/iere.12043
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 111-129
• 关键词: capital-skill complementarity; Illegal immigration; simple analytics; optimal-growth; unemployment; INEQUALITY; EFFICIENCY; MIGRANTS

摘要

We analyze the impact of the U.S. skill-biased immigration influx that took place between 2000 and 2009 within a search and matching model that allows for skill heterogeneity, differential search cost, and capital-skill complementarity. We find that although the skill-biased immigration raised the overall net income to natives, it had distributional effects. Specifically, unskilled native workers gained in terms of both employment and wages. Skilled native workers, however, gained in terms of employment but lost in terms of wages. Nevertheless, in an extension where skilled natives and immigrants are imperfect substitutes, even the skilled wage rises.