The Effects of Immigration on Places and People – Identification and Interpretation

Jan Stuhler, Christian Dustmann (), Sebastian Otten () and Uta Schönberg ()
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Christian Dustmann: University College London
Sebastian Otten: RWI
Uta Schönberg: University College London

No 18229, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Most studies on the labor market effects of immigration use repeated cross-sectional data to estimate the effects of immigration on regions. This paper shows that such regional effects are composites of effects that address fundamental questions in the immigration debate but remain unidentified with repeated cross-sectional data. We provide a unifying empirical framework that decomposes the regional effects of immigration into their underlying components and show how these are identifiable from data that track workers over time. Our empirical application illustrates that such analysis yields a far more informative picture of immigration’s effects on wages, employment, and occupational upgrading.

Keywords: elasticity; upgrading; employment effects; wage effects; immigration; selection; identification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J21 J23 J31 J61 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-geo, nep-lab, nep-ltv, nep-mig and nep-ure
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