Do Immigrants Work in Worse Jobs Than U.S. Natives? Evidence from California

2014

Author : Madeline Zavodny
Release : 2014
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Download or read book Do Immigrants Work in Worse Jobs Than U.S. Natives? Evidence from California written by Madeline Zavodny. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the debate over immigration reform, it is frequently asserted that immigrants take jobs that U.S. natives do not want. Using data from the 2000 Census merged with O*NET data on occupation characteristics, I show that the jobs held by immigrants are more physically arduous than the jobs held by U.S. natives. However, data from the California Work and Health Survey on self-reported physical job demands indicate that immigrants do not perceive their jobs as requiring more physical effort than U.S. natives. Immigrants thus have worse jobs than natives but do not view them as such.

The New Americans

1997-10-28 Social Science

Author : Panel on the Demographic and Economic Impacts of Immigration
Release : 1997-10-28
Genre : Social Science
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Download or read book The New Americans written by Panel on the Demographic and Economic Impacts of Immigration. This book was released on 1997-10-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds light on one of the most controversial issues of the decade. It identifies the economic gains and losses from immigration--for the nation, states, and local areas--and provides a foundation for public discussion and policymaking. Three key questions are explored: What is the influence of immigration on the overall economy, especially national and regional labor markets? What are the overall effects of immigration on federal, state, and local government budgets? What effects will immigration have on the future size and makeup of the nation's population over the next 50 years? The New Americans examines what immigrants gain by coming to the United States and what they contribute to the country, the skills of immigrants and those of native-born Americans, the experiences of immigrant women and other groups, and much more. It offers examples of how to measure the impact of immigration on government revenues and expenditures--estimating one year's fiscal impact in California, New Jersey, and the United States and projecting the long-run fiscal effects on government revenues and expenditures. Also included is background information on immigration policies and practices and data on where immigrants come from, what they do in America, and how they will change the nation's social fabric in the decades to come.

Do Immigrants Work in Riskier Jobs?

2010-02 Business & Economics

Author : Pia M. Orrenius
Release : 2010-02
Genre : Business & Economics
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Download or read book Do Immigrants Work in Riskier Jobs? written by Pia M. Orrenius. This book was released on 2010-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent reports suggest that immigrants are more likely to hold jobs with worse working conditions than U.S.-born workers, perhaps because immigrants work in jobs that â¿¿natives donâ¿¿t want.â¿¿ Despite this widespread view, earlier studies have not found immigrants to be in riskier jobs than natives. This study combines individual-level data from the 2003â¿¿2005 American Community Survey on work-related injuries and fatalities to take a fresh look at whether foreign-born workers are employed in more dangerous jobs. The results indicate that immigrants are in fact more likely to work in risky jobs than U.S.-born workers, partly due to differences in average characteristics, such as immigrantsâ¿¿ lower English language ability and educational attainment. Illus.

How Immigrants Affect California Employment and Wages

2007 California

Author : Giovanni Peri
Release : 2007
Genre : California
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Download or read book How Immigrants Affect California Employment and Wages written by Giovanni Peri. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most contentious issues about immigration is how it affects the wages and employment opportunities of U.S. natives. If immigrants hurt the labor market options of native workers, Californians should feel the most pain. California has a higher share of immigrants in its population and labor force than any other state. The large inflow of documented and undocumented immigrants during recent decades increased the presence of foreign-born individuals in California so much that by 2004, immigrants constituted one-third of the state's labor force and population. This edition of California Counts analyzes the effect of the immigration inflow on the employment, population, and wages of U.S. natives in California, using the decennial Censuses and American Community Survey data spanning the period 1960-2004. It presents the size, trends, and composition of immigration in California, compares these with national averages, and estimates how native workers' behavior and wages respond to the inflow of immigrant workers across age and education groups over that period. The major findings could have important implications for the national debate as well as for California: First, there is no evidence that the inflow of immigrants over the period 1960-2004 worsened the employment opportunities of natives with similar education and experience. The study finds no association between the inflow of immigrants and the out-migration of natives within the same education and age group. Second, according to our calculations, during 1990-2004, immigration induced a 4 percent real wage increase for the average native worker. This effected ranged from near zero (+0.2%) for wages of native high school dropouts and between 3 and 7 percent for native workers with at least a high school diploma. Third, the results indicate that recent immigrants did lower the wages of previous immigrants. Wages of immigrants who entered California before 1990 were 17 to 20 percent lower in 2004 than they would have been absent any immigration between 1990 and 2004. These findings derive from empirical analysis showing that immigrant workers often serve as complements to native workers rather than as their direct competitors for jobs, thereby increasing total economic output. Native workers benefit because they are able to specialize in more productive work. The results are consistent with other national-level research showing that immigrants have little if any effect on the wages of low-skilled natives and benefit high-skilled natives

Immigrants' Complementarities and Native Wages

2007 Immigrants

Author : Giovanni Peri
Release : 2007
Genre : Immigrants
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Download or read book Immigrants' Complementarities and Native Wages written by Giovanni Peri. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As of 2004 California employed almost 30% of all foreign born workers in the U.S. and was the state with the largest percentage of immigrants in the labor force. It received a very large number of uneducated immigrants so that two thirds of workers with no schooling degree in California were foreign-born in 2004. If immigration harms the labor opportunities of natives, especially the least skilled ones, California was the place where these effects should have been particularly strong. But is it possible that immigrants raised the demand for California's native workers, rather than harming it? After all immigrants have different skills and tend to work in different occupations then natives and hence they may raise productivity and the demand for complementary production tasks and skills. We consider workers of different education and age as imperfectly substitutable in production and we exploit differences in immigration across these groups to infer their impact on US natives. In order to isolate the "supply-driven" variation of immigrants across skills and to identify the labor market responses of natives we use a novel instrumental variable strategy. Our estimates use migration by skill group to other U.S. states as instrument for migration to California. Migratory flows to other states, in fact, share the same "push" factors as those to California but clearly are not affected by the California-specific "pull" factors. We find that between 1960 and 2004 immigration did not produce a negative migratory response from natives. To the contrary, as immigrants were imperfect substitutes for natives with similar education and age we find that they stimulated, rather than harmed, the demand and wages of most U.S. native workers.

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