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008 080625s2008 mau sb 000 0 eng
010 $a 2008610557
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050 00 $aHB1
100 1 $aBorjas, George J.
245 10 $aImperfect substitution between immigrants and natives$h[electronic resource] :$ba reappraisal /$cGeorge J. Borjas, Jeffrey Grogger, Gordon H. Hanson.
260 $aCambridge, MA :$bNational Bureau of Economic Research,$cc2008.
490 1 $aNBER working paper series ;$vworking paper 13887
538 $aSystem requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
538 $aMode of access: World Wide Web.
500 $aTitle from PDF file as viewed on 6/25/2008.
530 $aAlso available in print.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 3 $a"In a recent paper, Ottaviano and Peri (2007a) report evidence that immigrant and native workers are not perfect substitutes within narrowly defined skill groups. The resulting complementarities have important policy implications because immigration may then raise the wage of many native-born workers. We examine the Ottaviano-Peri empirical exercise and show that their finding of imperfect substitution is fragile and depends on the way the sample of working persons is constructed. There is a great deal of heterogeneity in labor market attachment among workers and the finding of imperfect substitution disappears once the analysis adjusts for such heterogeneity. As an example, the finding of immigrant-native complementarity evaporates simply by removing high school students from the data (under the Ottaviano and Peri classification, currently enrolled high school juniors and seniors are included among high school dropouts, which substantially increases the counts of young low-skilled workers ). More generally, we cannot reject the hypothesis that comparably skilled immigrant and native workers are perfect substitutes once the empirical exercise uses standard methods to carefully construct the variables representing factor prices and factor supplies"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
700 1 $aGrogger, Jeff.
700 1 $aHanson, Gordon H.$q(Gordon Howard).
710 2 $aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830 0 $aWorking paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;$vworking paper no. 13887.
856 40 $uhttp://papers.nber.org/papers/w13887