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dc.contributor.authorPeri, Giovannien
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-12T13:33:32Z-
dc.date.available2012-06-12T13:33:32Z-
dc.date.issued2010-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/58367-
dc.description.abstractI show that a CES production-function-based approach with skill differentiation and integrated national labor markets has predictions for the employment effect of immigrants at the local level. The model predicts that if I look at the employment (rather than wage) response by skill to immigration in a state, I can estimate the substitutability-complementarity between natives and immigrants. This allows me to infer, other things constant, how immigrants stimulate or depress the demand for native labor. I also use a novel instrument based on demographic characteristics of total Central American migrants or of the Mexican Population to predict immigration by skill level within California. Looking at immigration to California between 1960 and 2005 my estimates support the assumption of a nationally integrated labor market by skill and they support the hypothesis that natives and immigrants in the same education-experience group are not perfectly substitutable. This, in turn, explains the counter-intuitive fact that there is a zero correlation between immigration and wage and employment outcomes of natives.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aUniversity of California, Department of Economics |cDavis, CAen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aWorking Paper |x10-10en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.stwArbeitsmarkten
dc.subject.stwMigrantenen
dc.subject.stwQualifikationen
dc.subject.stwArbeitsnachfrageen
dc.subject.stwLohnniveauen
dc.subject.stwKalifornienen
dc.titleRethinking the area approach: Immigrants and the labor market in California, 1960-2005-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn635883848en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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