Gender, Selection into Employment, and the Wage Impact of Immigration

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Borjas, George J.; Edo, Anthony
• 署名单位: Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/732774
• 发表日期: 2026
• 关键词: labor-market impact; relative wages; instruments; earnings; models; gap

摘要

Natives are expected to respond to the wage impact of immigration by moving across markets. We argue that the observed impact depends not only on the size of the native response but also on which natives choose to respond. Specifically, a nonrandom response produces a selection bias. We document its empirical relevance by showing that the strong feminization of the French immigrant workforce reduced the employment of native women, leading to sizable compositional shifts and no correlation between immigration and female wages. Adjusting for selection bias results in a wage elasticity that becomes negative for women and similar to men.