The Impact of Low-Skilled Immigration on the Youth Labor Market
研究发现低教育移民增加对本土青年就业的负面影响远大于对成年人的影响,原因在于青年与移民工作重叠度高且青年劳动力供给对工资变化更敏感。
The employment to population rate of high school-aged youth has fallen by about 20 percentage points since the late 1980s. One potential explanation is increased competition from substitutable labor, such as immigrants. I demonstrate that the increase in the population of less educated immigrants has had a considerably more negative effect on employment outcomes for native youth than for native adults. At least two factors are at work: there is greater overlap between the jobs that youth and less educated adult immigrants traditionally do, and youth labor supply appears more responsive to immigration-induced wage changes.