The analytics of the wage effect of immigration

By George J Borjas. 2009

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The theory of factor demand has important implications for the study of the impact of immigration on wages. This paper derives the theoretical implications in the context of a general equilibrium model where the wage impact depends on the elasticity of product demand, the rate at which the consumer base expands as immigrants enter the receiving country, the elasticity of supply of capital, and the elasticity of substitution among inputs of production. The constraints imposed by the theory can be used to check the plausibility of the many contradictory claims that appear throughout the immigration literature.JEL codesJ23; J61; F22

Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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Do refugee camps help or hurt hosts? The case of Kakuma, Kenya (2018, background): “The magnitude of wage-depression depends upon the substitutability of new labor for existing workers as well as upon the products that they choose to consume (Borjas 2003, Ottaviano & Peri 2008, Borjas 2013).”
IMMIGRATION AND WAGES: EVIDENCE FROM CONSTRUCTION * (2012, unknown): “…directly affected by immigrant inflows face reduced wage growth and possible disemployment, the price dampening effect of immigrant construction 1 Borjas (2009) formalizes the approach in a comprehensive theoretical framework where the…”
Labor Supply Shocks, Native Wages, and the Adjustment of Local Employment (2017, background): “…supply labor to the local labor market, the local labor supply function for skill group g is where immigrants (i.e., new entrants) are (as in Borjas 2013) assumed to supply their labor inelastically, but the local labor supply of natives (i.e., incumbents) depends on skill-speciﬁc wages in…”
Immigration and Inequality (2009, unknown): “George J. Borjas, 13-56.”
The Economics of Temporary Migrations (2016, background): “Borjas (2009) adds another aspect, by highlighting the importance of remittances on labor-market outcomes in a general equilibrium setting.”