META-ANALYSIS OF EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE ON THE LABOUR MARKET IMPACTS OF IMMIGRATION

Simonetta Longhi, Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot

Region et Developpement, 2008, vol. 27, 161-191

Abstract: The increasing proportion of immigrants in the population of many countries has raised concerns about the ‘absorption capacity’ of the labour market, and fuelled extensive empirical research in countries that attract migrants. In previous papers we synthesized the conclusions of this empirical literature by means of meta -analyses of the impact of immigration on wages and employment of native-born workers. While we have shown that the labour market impacts in terms of wages and employment are rather small, the sample of studies available to generate comparable effect sizes was severely limited by the heterogeneity in study approaches. In the present paper, we take an encompassing approach and consider a broad range of labour market outcomes: wages, employment, employment and labour force participation. We compare 45 primary studies published tween 1982 and 2007 for a total of 1,572 effect sizes. We trichotomise the various labour rket outcomes as benefiting, harming or not affecting the native born, and use an ordered obit model to assess the relationship between this observed impact and key study characteristics such as type of country, methodology, period of investigation and type of migrant.

Keywords: IMMIGRATION; FACTOR SUBSTITUTION; LABOUR MARKET; COMPARATIVE RESEARCH; META-ANALYSIS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C51 F22 J31 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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Working Paper: Meta-Analysis of Empirical Evidence on the Labour Market Impacts of Immigration (2008)
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