Immigration and the Human Capital of Natives

• Autores: Peter McHenry
• Localización: Journal of human resources, ISSN 0022-166X, Vol. 50, Nº 1, 2015, págs. 34-71
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • abstract:Large low-skilled immigration flows influence both the distribution of local school resources and also local relative wages, which exert counterbalancing pressures on the local return to schooling. I use the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS:88) and U.S. Census data to show that low-skilled immigration to an area induces local natives to improve their performance in school, attain more years of schooling, and take jobs that involve communication-intensive tasks for which they (native English speakers) have a comparative advantage. These results point out mechanisms that mitigate the potentially negative effect of immigration on natives’ wages.