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Immigration, Skill Mix, and Capital Skill Complementarity

Lewis, E.·2011·The Quarterly Journal of Economics
DOI 10.1093/qje/qjr011
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Over the past thirty years, U.S. manufacturing plants invested heavily in automation machinery. This paper shows these investments substituted for the least-skilled workers and complemented middle-skilled workers at equipment and fabricated metal plants. Specifically, it exploits the fact that some metropolitan areas experienced faster growth in the relative supply of less-skilled labor in the 1980s and 1990s due to an immigration wave and the tendency of immigrants to regionally cluster. Plants in these areas adopted significantly less machinery per unit output, despite having similar adoption plans initially. The results imply that fixed rental rates for automation machinery reduce the effect that immigration has on less-skilled relative wages.

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Authors
Lewis, E.
Venue
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
2011-05-01
Volume
126
Issue
2
Pages
1029-1069
ISSN
  • 0033-5533 (ISSN-L)
  • 1531-4650
DOI
10.1093/qje/qjr011
OpenAlex
W2001374363
Cited by
422
References
47
FWCI
54.74
Type
journal article
Language
en
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