Immigration, Skill Mix, and Capital Skill Complementarity

By Ethan G. Lewis. 2011

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Demographics and Automation (2021, positive): “…braceros—temporary agricultural workers—induced farms to adopt mechanic harvesters and switch to crops with greater potential for mechanization, while Lewis (2011) shows that in U.S. metropolitan areas receiving fewer low-skill immigrants between 1980 and 1990 equipment and fabricated metal plants…”
Labor Supply Shocks, Native Wages, and the Adjustment of Local Employment (2017, background): “For instance, ﬁrms might change their technology (see, e.g., Lewis 2011), labor market entrants might invest more in full-time education (see, e.g., Hunt 2012 and Smith 2012), and even experienced workers might upgrade to more skilled occupations (Peri and Sparber 2009).”
How Do Industries and Firms Respond to Changes in Local Labor Supply? (2015, positive): “…technology, showing that automation machinery indeed expands more rapidly in those areas in which the relative supply of skilled labor grows fastest ðLewis 2011Þ and that skill abundance leads to a faster adoption of new technologies ðBeaudry, Doms, and Lewis 2010Þ. 3 On the other hand, if all…”
Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration (2019, neutral): “2Clemens et al. (2018), Lafortune et al. (2019), and Lewis (2011) find that the labor market effects of immigration can be largely mediated by firms’ investment and technology adoption.”
Causal Inference in Urban and Regional Economics (2014, neutral): “…flow of immigrants into the United States from each region over some subsequent time period, and then summing over all regions of origin.17 As in Lewis (2011), an analogous exercise can be carried out by observed skill to generate variation across local labor markets in the relative supply of…”
Why Has Regional Convergence in the U.S. Stopped (2012, positive): “Along similar lines, Lewis (2011) finds that increased low-skilled labor supply in the 1980s and 1990s was a substitute for capital investment in the manufacturing sector.”
Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey (2011, background): “Lewis (2010) provided evidence that technology choice and capital-skill complementarity can explain some of the limited ndings in area-based studies.”
Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions (2014, background): “The difference in estimated productivity response between Peri (2012) and Lewis (2011) could either be a result of Lewis’s narrower focus 42 The finding that changes in skill mix are associated with changes in the skill intensity of production is similar to a cross-country patterns found in Caselli…”