CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Jancec, Matija |
|---|---|
| Title | Effects of Immigrants on the Native Force Labor Market Outcomes: Examining Data from Canada and the US |
| Summary | In the last 20 years there has been significant increase in international migration. This growth also gives rise to a debate about the effects of immigrants on the native work force labor market outcomes. This thesis will present the analysis done on the US and the Canadian dataset that investigates the effect of immigrants on local workers‟ wage and employment. In the first part of the thesis educational-experience skill cell approach is used for estimating the effect of immigrants. This estimation method shows that the effects of immigrants are more negative for US than for Canada. Furthermore evidence for spatial arbitration effect is present in both countries when more disaggregated data is used. In the second part nested CES production function approach is used. It allows for an imperfect substitution between immigrants and natives in the same skill cell and also takes into account different elasticity of substitution between workers with various educational and experience attainment. The coefficients obtained in this way show that the long run effect of immigrants has been positive on native workers in Canada. |
| Supervisor | Earle, John |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/jancec_matija.pdf |
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