How much do immigration and trade affect labor market outcomes?

By George J Borjas, Richard B. Freeman, Lawrence F. Katz. Brookings papers on economic activity, 2021

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"This paper provides new estimates of the impact of immigration and trade on the U.S. labor market.... We examine the relation between economic outcomes for native workers and immigrant flows to regional labor markets.... We...use the factor proportions approach to examine the contributions of immigration and trade to recent changes in U.S. educational wage differentials and attempt to provide a broader assessment of the impact of immigration on the incomes of U.S. natives." Comments and discussion by John DiNardo, John M. Abowd, and others are included (pp. 68-85).

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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The China Shock: Learning from Labor Market Adjustment to Large Changes in Trade (2016, background): “Much first-generation research on trade and wages worked under the canonical version of the Heckscher-Ohlin (HO) model (e.g., Lawrence & Slaughter 1993, Borjas et al. 1997).”
Does Immigration Grease the Wheels of the Labor Market? (2001, background): “Borjas, Freeman, and Katz (1997); Schoeni (1997). ative.”
The analytics of the wage effect of immigration (2009, neutral): “This point was first illustrated in Borjas et al. (1997).”
Trade in university training: cross-state variation in the production and stock of college-educated labor (2004, background): “The labor economics literature (e.g., Blanchard and Katz, 1992; Borjas, Freeman, and Katz 1997) has argued for the importance of migration as a means that states have of adjusting to macroeconomic shocks.”
Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Markets Approach with Heterogeneous Firms (2016, positive): “, Card (2001), Borjas et al. (1997), and Ottaviano and Peri (2012). (18)See Desai et al. (2007) for estimates that suggest the incidence of corporate taxes is partly shared by workers and owner’s of capital.”
Earnings Inequality, Returns to Education and Immigration into Ireland (2002, result): “As such, our findings are an interesting corollary to the findings of Borjas, Freeman and Katz (1997) .”
Workers' Remitt ances: An Important and Stable Source of External Development Finance (2005, background): “For example, local workers may move to another location and this may show up as lower employment in their original location, but it would be hard to attribute this fall in employment rate to immigration (see Borjas, Freeman, and Katz 1997; Borjas 1994).”
Mismatch Unemployment and the Geography of Job Search (2018, background): “…is relevant to measure the impact of immigrants on natives' wages or employment rates (Card, 1990; Altonji and Card, 1991; Friedberg and Hunt, 1995; Borjas et al., 1996, 1997; DiNardo and Card, 2000; Card, 2001, 2005; Borjas, 2003; Ottaviano and Peri, 2006), the impact of local shocks on labor…”
Offshoring and the skill structure of labour demand (2012, neutral): “Thirdly, calibrated general equilibrium models found only a small quantitative role of trade (Borjas et al., 1997).”