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Task Specialization, Immigration, and Wages
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Large inflows of less educated immigrants may reduce wages paid to comparably-educated, native-born workers. However, if less educated foreign- and native-born workers specialize in different production tasks, because of different abilities, immigration will cause natives to reallocate their task supply, thereby reducing downward wage pressure. Using occupational task-intensity data from the O*NET dataset and individual US census data, we demonstrate that foreign-born workers specialize in occupations intensive in manual-physical labor skills while natives pursue jobs more intensive in communication-language tasks. This mechanism can explain why economic analyses find only modest wage consequences of immigration for less educated native-born workers. (JEL J24, J31, J61)
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- Authors
- Peri, G., & Sparber, C.
- Venue
- American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
- Publisher
- American Economic Association
- Published
- 2009-06-01
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 135-169
- ISSN
- 1945-7782 (ISSN-L)
- 1945-7790
- OpenAlex
- W2132413086
- Cited by
- 886
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 109.63
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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