Labor Market Competition and the Assimilation of Immigrants

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Albert, Christoph; Glitz, Albrecht; Llull, Joan
• 署名单位: University of Turin; Collegio Carlo Alberto; Pompeu Fabra University; Barcelona School of Economics; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC); Barcelona School of Economics
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282; 1944-7981
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.20220865
• 发表日期: 2026-05
• 页码: 1682-1722
• 关键词: outcomes evidence; cohort quality; earnings; IMPACT; wages; population; migration; networks

摘要

This paper shows that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between individual skill accumulation and dynamic labor market equilibrium effects. When immigrants and natives are imperfect substitutes, rising immigrant inflows widen the wage gap between them. Using a production function framework in which workers supply both general and host-country-speciic skills, we show that this labor market competition channel explains about one-ifth of the large increase in the average immigrant-native wage gap across arrival cohorts in the United States since the 1960s. The results further reveal substantial heterogeneity across different groups of immigrants. (JEL J22, J23, J24, J31, J61, K37, O33)