Native Internal Migration and the Labor Market Impact of Immigration
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- 1 April 2006
- journal article
- Published by University of Wisconsin Press in The Journal of Human Resources
- Vol. XLI (2) , 221-258
- https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.xli.2.221
Abstract
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.Keywords
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