Labor Market Competition and the Assimilation of Immigrants.

Autor/inn/en	Albert, Christoph; Glitz, Albrecht; Llull, Joan
Institution	CESifo GmbH
Titel	Labor Market Competition and the Assimilation of Immigrants. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Wettbewerb auf dem Arbeitsmarkt und die Assimilation von Einwanderern.
Quelle	München (2021), 53 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	CESifo working paper. 9231
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Substitution; Fremdsprachenkenntnisse; Englisch; Assimilation (Soz); Einkommensunterschied; Inländer; Lohnentwicklung; Wettbewerb; Berufliche Integration; Qualifikation; Qualifikationsstruktur; Auswirkung; Herkunftsland; USA
Abstract	"In this paper, we show that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between individual skill accumulation and dynamic equilibrium effects in the labor market. When immigrants and natives are imperfect substitutes, increasing immigrant inflows widen the wage gap between them. Using a simple production function framework, we show that this labor market competition channel can explain about one quarter of the large increase in the average immigrant-native wage gap in the United States between the 1960s and 1990s arrival cohorts. Once competition effects and compositional changes in education and region of origin are accounted for, we find that the unobservable skills of newly arriving immigrants increased over time rather than decreased as traditionally argued in the literature. We corroborate this finding by documenting closely matching patterns for immigrants' English language profficiency." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2022/2