Does Immigration Grease the Wheels of the Labor Market?
By George J Borjas. Foundations of Migration Economics, 2001
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This chapter argues that immigration greases the wheels of the labor market by injecting into the economy a group of persons who are very responsive to regional differences in economic opportunities. The evidence shows that interstate dispersion of economic opportunities generates substantial behavioral differences in the location decisions of immigrant and native workers. New immigrant arrivals are much more likely to be clustered in those states that offer the highest wages for the types of skills that they have to offer. In other words, new immigrants make up a disproportionately large fraction of the “marginal” workers who chase better economic opportunities and help equalize opportunities across areas.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science
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