The Impact of Low-Skilled Immigration on the Youth Labor Market

By Christopher L. Smith. Journal of Labor Economics, 2009

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The employment to population rate of high school–aged youth has fallen by about 20 percentage points since the late 1980s. One potential explanation is increased competition from substitutable labor, such as immigrants. I demonstrate that the increase in the population of less educated immigrants has had a considerably more negative effect on employment outcomes for native youth than for native adults. At least two factors are at work: there is greater overlap between the jobs that youth and less educated adult immigrants traditionally do, and youth labor supply appears more responsive to immigration-induced wage changes.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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• Labor Force Participation: Recent Developments and Future Prospects (2014, background): “Another ongoing source of crowd-out may be the increasing population share of less-educated adult immigrants, with some evidence suggesting that the displacement effect of immigration is much larger on the employment of younger persons than on the employment of prime-age adults (Smith 2012).”