The Effect of Low‐Skilled Immigration on U.S. Prices: Evidence from CPI Data

By Patricia Cortés. Journal of Political Economy, 2008

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Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk? (2011, unknown): “…and Ottaviano and Peri (forthcoming) fi nd that millions of recent immigrants to the United States have caused the average worker’s nominal wages to decline a few percent—if at all—while Cortes (2008) fi nds that immigration lowered the price of a typical consumption basket about half of 1 percent.”
The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants: a survey of the literature for receiving countries (2013, unknown): “For instance, Cortes (2008) and Baghdadi and Jensen (2010) use instruments to explore the impact of US migration on prices.”
Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of US Firms (2014, unknown): “[20] Cortes, Patricia, "The Effect of Low-Skilled Immigration on US Prices: Evidence from CPI Data", Journal of Political Economy 116:3 (2008), 381-422.”
Highly-educated immigrants and native occupational choice (2011, unknown): “19See Card (2007), Card and Lewis (2007), Cortes (2008), Ottaviano and Peri (2007), or Peri and Sparber (2008a).”
Immigration and Housing Booms: Evidence from Spain (2013, unknown): “Some important recent contributions are Cortes (2008) for the US and Frattini (2009) for the UK.10 Second, our paper also touches upon the recent literature studying the effects of the recent wave of immigration on the Spanish labor market.”
Do Interest Groups Affect U.S. Immigration Policy? (2008, unknown): “To the best of our knowledge, the only empirical paper on this issue is Cortes (2006), which uses highly disaggregated US data at the city level.”
Inequality and Specialization: The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs in the United States (2009, background): “E-mail: ddorn@bu.edu”
Do refugee camps help or hurt hosts? The case of Kakuma, Kenya (2018, unknown): “5See Card (1990), Lach (2007), Cortes (2008) among others. national rural averages of 78 and 16% (Table B1).6 Economic livelihood in Turkana is significantly less dependent on agriculture and more reliant upon livestock than in Kenya on average (Table B1).”