Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/173972 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11062
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
While there is a vast literature considering the labour market effects of immigration, less has been done to investigate how immigration affects the educational choices of young natives. Using Italian provincial data and an instrumental variables strategy, we show that the recent increase in the immigration of low skilled labour has produced human capital polarization, i.e. the contemporaneous increase in the share of natives with less than high school and not enrolled in school and in the share with a college degree or enrolled in college. This evidence is stronger for males than for females. We adapt the standard Card's model of educational choice and spell out under what conditions human capital polarization occurs. We estimate wage equations by gender and find that these conditions are satisfied, especially for Italian males.
Subjects: 
low skilled
immigration
human capital
Italy
JEL: 
J26
H55
J21
J14
J11
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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