Is the new immigration really so bad?

• 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: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2005.01037.x
• 发表日期: 2005
• 页码: F300-F323
• 关键词: internal migration; metropolitan-areas; cohort quality; earnings; wages; assimilation; EMPLOYMENT; education; mobility; returns

摘要

This article reviews the recent evidence on US immigration, focusing on two key questions: (1) Does immigration reduce the labour market opportunities of less skilled natives? (2) Have immigrants who arrived after the 1965 Immigration Reform Act been successfully assimilated? Overall, evidence that immigrants have harmed the opportunities of less educated natives is scant. On the question of assimilation, the success of the US-born children of immigrants is a key yardstick. By this metric, post-1965 immigrants are doing reasonably well. Even children of the least educated immigrant origin groups have closed most of the education gap with the children of natives.