Manacorda, Marco, Manning, Alan 
ORCID: 0000-0002-7884-3580 and Wadsworth, Jonathan
(2012)
The impact of immigration on the structure of male wages: theory and evidence from Britain.
Journal of the European Economic Association, 10 (1).
pp. 120-151.
ISSN 1542-4774
Abstract
Immigration to the UK, particularly among more educated workers, has risen appreciably over the past 30 years and as such has raised labor supply. However studies of the impact of immigration have failed to find any significant effect on the wages of native-born workers in the UK. This is potentially puzzling since there is evidence that changes in the supply of educated natives have had significant effects on their wages. Using a pooled time series of British cross-sectional micro data on male wages and employment from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s, this paper offers one possible resolution to this puzzle, namely that in the UK natives and foreign born workers are imperfect substitutes. We show that immigration has primarily reduced the wages of immigrants—and in particular of university educated immigrants—with little discernable effect on the wages of the native-born.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Official URL: | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28... |
| Additional Information: | © 2012 European Economic Association |
| Divisions: | Economics Centre for Economic Performance |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor |
| JEL classification: | J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies > J60 - General |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Feb 2012 16:06 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 00:05 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/41954 |
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