A Meta-Analytic Assessment of the Effect of Immigration on Wages

By Simonetta Longhi, Peter Nijkamp, Jacques Poot. 2004

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Whither Corruption? A Quantitative Survey of the Literature on Corruption and Growth (2010, neutral): “12 See Longhi et al. (2005).”
The Impact of the Recent Migration from Eastern Europe on the UK Economy (2007, positive): “Longhi et al (2005) recently performed a meta-analysis of 348 estimates of the percentage change in the wage of native workers with respect to a 1 percentage point increase in the ratio of immigrants over native workers.”
Characteristics of migrant entrepreneurship in Europe (2009, background): “Recent studies show also that although international migration may intervene as local labour markets by negatively affecting the wages of native workers, its actual (negative) impact is quantitatively small (Longhi, Nijkamp, and Poot 2005 ).”
Impact of Migration on Economic and Social Development: A Review of Evidence and Emerging Issues (2011, neutral): “Still, in the OECD countries the aggregate effect of immigration on wages has been found to be very small both in the short run and in the long run (Longhi et al. 2005), and similar 14 In Italy, government statistics agency publicly blamed immigration for the country’s rising unemployment in 2008,…”
Factors explaining inter-municipal cooperation in service delivery: a meta-regression analysis (2016, background): “6 Other meta-regressions analyses of special interest within the economic and public policy literature have been applied to the effect of immigration on wages (Longhi et al., 2005), the effects of common currency on international trade (Rose and Stanley, 2005), and environmental inequities (Ringquis”
Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey (2011, result): “Recent meta-surveys by Longhi et al. (2005, 2008) and Okkerse (2008) found comparable, small e¤ects across many studies.”
What determines attitudes to immigration in European countries? An analysis at the regional level (2013, background): “tend to cluster within few areas (Dustmann and Preston 2001; Longhi et al. 2005); such regional differences would be lost if, as the majority of the literature has done up to now, we compare countries instead of regions.”
Fear, Unemployment and Migration (2009, neutral): “... migrants, consistent with the view that the elasticity of aggregate labour supply is close to zero in the UK. This acts to attenuate any effect of increased labour supply on the native wage distribution and then only has a sizeable effect on wages of migrants who were already in the UK. It also ”
The Impact of Immigration on International Trade: A Meta-Analysis (2011, neutral): “We are aware of at least the following papers that became available after the completion of our data set: Parsons (2011), Bowen and Pédussel-Wu (2011), Egger et al.”