Recent Immigration and Economic Outcomes in Rural America

Mark Partridge, Dan Rickman and Kamar Ali ()
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Kamar Ali: University of Saskatchewan

No 805, Economics Working Paper Series from Oklahoma State University, Department of Economics and Legal Studies in Business

Abstract: This paper assessed how recent immigrant flows have affected non-metropolitan county labor market outcomes over the 2000-2005 period. We find the largest impact to be increased net out-migration of natives in the more remote rural counties. Dramatically less out-migration of natives occurred in manufacturing-dependent counties, which also experienced reduced employment rates suggesting greater job queuing. Immigration was positively associated with net migration in persistently high-poverty counties. Given the general absence of statistically significant adverse impacts on other labor market outcomes in these counties, it is possible that immigration helps to revitalize persistently high-poverty counties, although point estimates suggested out-migration may have been insufficient to equalize real wages.

Keywords: immigration; domestic migration; rural America; economic geography regional and urban economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2008-06
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