Does Immigration Hurt Low Income Workers?: Immigration and Real Wage Income below the 50th Percentile, Sweden 1993-2003

Martin Korpi () and Ayse Abbasoglu Ozgoren
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Martin Korpi: Institute for Futures Studies, Postal: Institute for Futures Studies, Box 591, SE-101 31 Stockholm, Sweden

No 2010:6, Arbetsrapport from Institute for Futures Studies

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This paper addresses potential effects of immigration on wage income of predominantly low income Swedish born workers. Using unique individual full population panel data for two time-periods, 1993- 1999 and 1997-2003, we estimate two fixed effect models controlling for both individual and local labor market characteristics as well as individual and regional fixed effects. The models are tested for a range of population sub-groups, the compulsory and upper secondary educated and workers within certain shares of the local income distribution (using different below median percentile levels as population cut-off points). The estimates show mainly a positive relationship between increasing shares of foreign born and wage income of Swedish born workers.

Keywords: International migration; Local labor markets; Wage levels; labour supply (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J22 J31 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2010-07-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-mig
Note: ISSN: 1652-120X ISBN: 978-91-85619-66-5
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