The effect of immigration along the distribution of wages.

Autor/inn/en	Dustmann, Christian; Frattini, Tommaso; Preston, Ian
Institution	Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (London)
Titel	The effect of immigration along the distribution of wages. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Die Auswirkungen der Einwanderung entlang der Einkommensverteilung.
Quelle	London (2008), 58 S.; 462 KB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	CReAM discussion paper. 03/08
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Inländer; Einkommenseffekt; Einkommensverteilung; Lohnhöhe; Qualifikationsstruktur; Arbeitspapier; Arbeitnehmer; Ausländer; Großbritannien
Abstract	"This paper analyses the effect immigration has on wages of native workers. Unlike most previous work, we estimate wage effects along the distribution of wages. We derive a flexible empirical strategy that does not rely on pre-allocating immigrants to particular skill groups. In our empirical analysis, we demonstrate that immigrants downgrade considerably upon arrival. As for the effects on native wages, we find that immigration depresses wages below the 20th percentile of the wage distribution, but leads to slight wage increases in the upper part of the wage distribution. The overall wage effect of immigration is slightly positive. The positive wage effects we find are, although modest, too large to be explained by an immigration surplus. We suggest alternative explanations, based on the idea that immigrants are paid less than the value of what they contribute to production, generating therefore a surplus, and we assess the magnitude of these effects." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Sekundäranalyse; Längsschnitt; Querschnitt; Theoriebildung; Grundlagenforschung. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1997 bis 2005. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2009/3