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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w23433 |
来源ID | Working Paper 23433 |
The Labor Market Effects of Refugee Waves: Reconciling Conflicting Results | |
Michael A. Clemens; Jennifer Hunt | |
发表日期 | 2017-05-22 |
出版年 | 2017 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives’ wages and employment using exogenous refugee supply shocks as natural experiments. Several studies have reached conflicting conclusions about the effects of noted refugee waves such as the Mariel Boatlift in Miami and post-Soviet refugees to Israel. We show that conflicting findings on the effects of the Mariel Boatlift can be explained by a large difference in the pre- and post-Boatlift racial composition in subsamples of the Current Population Survey extracts. This compositional change is specific to Miami, unrelated to the Boatlift, and arises from selecting small subsamples of workers. We also show that conflicting findings on the labor market effects of other important refugee waves are caused by spurious correlation between the instrument and the endogenous variable introduced by applying a common divisor to both. As a whole, the evidence from refugee waves reinforces the existing consensus that the impact of immigration on average native-born workers is small, and fails to substantiate claims of large detrimental impacts on workers with less than high school. |
主题 | Econometrics ; Estimation Methods ; Labor Economics ; Unemployment and Immigration ; Regional and Urban Economics |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23433 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/581106 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Michael A. Clemens,Jennifer Hunt. The Labor Market Effects of Refugee Waves: Reconciling Conflicting Results. 2017. |
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