While the economic effects of immigration have recently become topics of debate in the public arena, the debate is a long-standing one in the economics literature. The labor market effects of immigration have long been of interest to economists. Whereas theory predicts large negative effects on the wages of competing native-born workers from influxes of immigrants in local markets, the bulk of papers in the literature find only small effects. In this dissertation, I examine the impact of immigration on wages in the U.S. labor market. In the first essay, I show that many forces in the labor market confound the identification of the effect of immigration on wages of native-born. Using U.S. Census data, I find that the negative correlation between wages and immigration over 1960-2000 is driven entirely by low educated workers, and many demand-side trends over this period can equally explain the result. The conclusion of Chapter 2 resolves the conflict between the majority of stud…
Contents
Chapter 1: Immigration in the 20thcentury
1.1 Immigration Waves of the 20thCentury
1.2 Composition of Immigrants in the U.S
1.3 Changing Settlement Patterns
1.4 Economic Analysis of Immigration
Chapter 2: Refining the Estimation of Immigration’s Labor Market Effects
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Literature Review
2.3 Data
2.4 Methods
2.5 Replication and Analysis of Competing Explanations
2.5.1 Replication and Examination of Influential Observations
2.5.2 Time Trend Results
2.5.3 Testing for Compositional Changes in Immigrant Share
2.6 Results from Analysis of Canadian Data
2.7 Discussion
2.8 Conclusion
Chapter 3: The Quantity and Quality of New Immigrants to the U.S
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Literature Review
3.3 Hypothesis and Implementation
3.4 Data
3.5 The Effect of Immigrant Concentration
3.5.1 Results from the Basic Model
3.5.2 Specification Checks
3.5.3 Robustness
3.6 Cohort Quality Results
3.7 Conclusion
Chapter 4: Conclusions and Policy Implications
4.1 Findings
4.2 Policy Implications
Tables
Figures
Appendices
Bibliography
Author: Bohn, Sarah Elizabeth
Source: University of Maryland
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