How Much Do Immigration and Trade Affect Labor Market Outcomes?

George Borjas, Richard Freeman and Lawrence Katz

Chapter 8 in Foundational Essays in Immigration Economics, 2021, pp 163-234 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: IMMIGRATION AND TRADE—particularly with less developed countries (LDCs)—have become more significant to the U.S. economy since the 1960s than they were earlier in the postwar period. The number of immigrants relative to native-born workers has risen; an increasing proportion of immigrants come from less developed countries; and a disproportionate number of immigrants have relatively little schooling. The ratio of exports and imports to GOP has risen as well, and an increasing proportion of imports have come from less developed countries. Immigration and trade have thus increased the effective labor supply of less skilled workers in the United States, with potential consequences for relative wages and employment…

Keywords: Immigration; Economics; Labor Markets; Refugees; Self-selection; Return Migration; Migration; Costs and Benefits from Immigration; Assimilation; Cohort Effects; National Origin; Ethnicity; Neighborhood Effects; Ethnic Capital; Internal Migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F66 J01 J15 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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