Immigrant–native wage gaps in time series: Complementarities or composition effects?

Joakim Ruist

Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 119, issue 2, 154-156

Abstract: Previous research has shown that immigrants’ wages decrease when the supply of immigrants increases. This negative correlation has been interpreted as evidence of immigrant–native complementarities in production. The present study finds that it is instead due to changing immigrant composition.

Keywords: Immigrant–native complementarities; Wage gaps; Immigrant composition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.02.005

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