The impact of immigration on the structure of male wages: theory and evidence from Britain
"Immigration to the UK has risen over time. Existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native-born workers in the UK have failed to find any significant effect. This is something of a puzzle since Card and Lemieux, (2001) have shown that changes in the relative supply of educ...
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| Institution: | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
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2006
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| author | Manacorda, Marco Manning, Alan Wadsworth, Jonathan |
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| description | "Immigration to the UK has risen over time. Existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native-born workers in the UK have failed to find any significant effect. This is something of a puzzle since Card and Lemieux, (2001) have shown that changes in the relative supply of educated natives do seem to have measurable effects on the wage structure. This paper offers a resolution of this puzzle – natives and immigrants are imperfect substitutes, so that an increase in immigration reduces the wages of immigrants relative to natives. We show this using a pooled time series of British cross-sectional micro data of observations on male wages and employment from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s. This lack of substitution also means that there is little discernable effect of increased immigration on the wages of native-born workers, but that the only sizeable effect of increased immigration is on the wages of those immigrants who are already here." |
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| geographic | United Kingdom |
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| institution | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
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| is_hierarchy_title | The impact of immigration on the structure of male wages: theory and evidence from Britain |
| language | English |
| physical | 37 p. Digital |
| publishDate | 2006 |
| publisher | Bonn IZA |
| spellingShingle | Manacorda, Marco Manning, Alan Wadsworth, Jonathan immigration men statistics wage differential wage structure wages The impact of immigration on the structure of male wages: theory and evidence from Britain |
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| title | The impact of immigration on the structure of male wages: theory and evidence from Britain |
| topic | immigration men statistics wage differential wage structure wages |
| url | https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19125291124919434739-The-impact-of-immigration-on-t.htm |