Native internal migration and the labor market impact of immigration

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"This paper presents a theoretical and empirical study of how immigration influences the joint determination of the wage structure and internal migration behavior for native-born workers in local labor markets. Using data from the 1960-2000 decennial censuses, the study shows that immigration is associated with lower in-migration rates, higher out-migration rates, and a decline in the growth rate of the native workforce. The native migration response attenuates the measured impact of immigration on wages in a local labor market by 40 to 60 percent, depending on whether the labor market is defined at the state or metropolitan area level"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.

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Series Statement

• NBER working paper series ;
• working paper 11610
• Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;
• working paper no. 11610.

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• http://papers.nber.org/papers/W11610
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