Immigration, Unemployment and Wages: New Causality Evidence from the United Kingdom
28 Pages Posted: 1 Jun 2017
Date Written: May 02, 2017
Abstract
The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and aggregation biases. Ours is among the first papers to address both of these issues by means of causality analysis and by accounting for human capital endowments. Our analysis confirms the previous finding of limited effect of immigration on unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human capital of non-migrants.
Keywords: immigration, unemployment, wages, UK, European Union
JEL Classification: F220, J210, J610
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Tunali, Cigdem Börke and Fidrmuc, Jan and Fidrmuc, Jan and Campos, Nauro F., Immigration, Unemployment and Wages: New Causality Evidence from the United Kingdom (May 02, 2017). CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6452, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2977797 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2977797
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