Immigration, Unemployment and Wages: New Causality Evidence from the United Kingdom

Cigdem Börke Tunali, Jan Fidrmuc and Nauro Campos

No 6452, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and aggregation biases. Ours is among the first papers to address both of these issues by means of causality analysis and by accounting for human capital endowments. Our analysis confirms the previous finding of limited effect of immigration on unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human capital of non-migrants.

Keywords: immigration; unemployment; wages; UK; European Union (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J21 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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