Immigration and Wages: Evidence From the 1980s
利用20世纪80年代美国24个主要城市的工资分布变化，考察移民对低技能工人实际收入的影响，发现移民流入与低技能工人工资下降之间没有明显关联。
This paper presents new evidence on the effects of immigration based on changes in the distributions of wages in 24 major [U.S.] cities during the 1980s....We...concentrate on measuring the effects of immigration at the lower tail of the wage distribution. In particular we ask whether recent declines in the real earnings of the least-skilled workers in the U.S. economy are related to immigration. Our empirical analysis reveals large differences across cities in the relative growth rates of wages for low- and high-paid workers. Nevertheless these differences bear little or no relation to the size of immigrant inflows. (EXCERPT)