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Cross-Country Variation in the Impact of International Migration: Canada, Mexico, and the United States
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Using data drawn from the Canadian, Mexican, and U.S. censuses, we find a numerically comparable and statistically significant inverse relation between immigrant-induced shifts in labor supply and wages in each of the three countries: A 10% labor supply shift is associated with a 3%–4% opposite-signed change in wages. Despite the similarity in the wage response, the impact of migration on the wage structure differs significantly across countries. International migration narrowed wage inequality in Canada; increased it in the United States; and reduced the relative wage of workers at the bottom of the skill distribution in Mexico.
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“This paper contributes to the recently revived literature analyzing the impact of immigration within a labor market equilibrium framework fully accounting for the interactions between production factors (Aydemir and Borjas, 2007; Borjas, 2003; Manacorda et al., 2006; Ottaviano and Peri, 2008; Peri, 2007).”
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- Authors
- Aydemir, A., & Borjas, G. J.
- Affiliations
- Statistics Canada (CA)
- Harvard University (US)
- Venue
- Journal of the European Economic Association
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2007-06-01
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 663-708
- ISSN
- 1542-4766 (ISSN-L)
- 1542-4774
- OpenAlex
- W2141954859
- Semantic Scholar
- 663af748643aef027db75d9ddee6b3d1d546d607
- Cited by
- 280
- References
- 37
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- FWCI
- 48.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of the European Economic Association (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › General Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Global trade and economics
- Keywords
- international migration, labor supply, wage effects, wage inequality, skill differentials, cross-national comparison, Canada, Mexico, United States
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