Do Surges in Less-Skilled Immigration Have Important Wage Effects?

David R. Howell
Written By SCEPA

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This paper reviews a small part of a vast professional literature on the labor market effects of new immigrants.

It focuses on recent studies that have employed econometric techniques to estimate wage effects of less-skilled immigrants during the two great American immigration surges (roughly 1870-1914 and 1980 to the present).

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