The Effect of Immigration on Wages in Three European Countries

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The Effect of Immigration on Wages in Three European Countries

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Hartog, Joop () (University of Amsterdam and IZA Bonn)
Zorlu, Aslan (NIMA, University of Minho)

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Aslan Zorlu

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We extend the Altonji and Card (1991) framework for analysing the impact of immigrants on natives’ wages from two to three labour types and estimate reduced form wage equations for The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Norway. We find very small effects on natives’ wages and no dominant robust patterns of substitution and complementarity. Effects on wages of earlier immigrants are larger but less reliable. Further work should focus on these own effects.

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- Aslan Zorlu & Joop Hartog, 2005. "The effect of immigration on wages in three european countries," Journal of Population Economics, Springer, vol. 18(1), pages 113-151, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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- Aslan Zorlu & Joop Hartog, 2002. "The effect of immigration on wages in three European countries," Working Papers 19, Núcleo de Investigação em Microeconomia Aplicada (NIMA), Universidade do Minho. [Downloadable!]

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J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities and Races; Non-labor Discrimination
J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials

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