The effect of immigrants on the earnings of low-skilled native workers: Evidence from the June 1991 current population survey

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 417-431

  Camarota, Steven A ^a  

^a Center for Immigration Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013335322     PISSN: 00384941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Belman, Dale, and John S. Heywood. 1991. "Sheepskin Effects in the Return to Education: An Examination of Women and Minorities." Review of Economics and Statistics 73: 720-724.
2. Blackburn, Mckinley L., David E. Bloom, and Richard B. Freeman. 1990. "The Declining Economic Position of Less Skilled American Men." Pp. 31-76 in G. Burtless, ed., A Future of Lousy Jobs: The Changing Structure of U.S. Wages. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution.
3. Borjas, George. 1984. "The Impact of Immigrants on the Earnings of the Native-Born." Pp. 83-126 in W. M. Briggs and M. Tienda, eds., Immigration: Issues and Policies. Salt Lake City: Olympus.
4. Borjas, George, Richard B. Freeman, and Lawrence F. Katz. 1993. "On the Labor Market Effects of Immigration and Trade." Pp. 213-244 in G. Borjas and R. Freeman, eds., Immigration and the Workforce. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
5. Brownlee, Elliot. 1979. The Dynamics of Ascent: A History of the American Economy. New York: Knopf.
6. Butcher, Kristin F., and David Card. 1991. "Immigration and Wages: Evidence from the 1980s." American Economic Review 81: 292-296.
7. Card, David. 1990. "The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami Labor Market." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 43: 245-257.
8. Devine, Joel A., and James D. Wright. 1993. The Greatest of Evils: Urban Poverty and the American Underclass. New York: Aldine De Gruyter.
9. Easterlin, Richard. 1968. Population, Labor force and Long Swings in Economic Growth. New York: Columbia University Press.
10. Ellwood, David T. 1988. Poor Support. New York: Basic Books.
11. Enchautegui, Maria. 1993. "Effects of Immigration on the Wages and Employment of Black Males." Research paper #5118. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute.
12. Filer, Randall K. 1993. "The Effect of Immigrant Arrivals on Migratory Patterns of Native Workers." Pp. 245-267 in G. Borjas and R. Freeman, eds., Immigration and the Workforce. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
13. Fligstein, Neil. 1981. Going North: Migration of Blacks and Whites from the South. New York: Academic Press.
14. The Foreign-Born Population in the U.S. 1993. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
15. Freeman, Richard B., and James L. Medoff. 1981. "The Impact of the Percentage Organized on Union and Nonunion Wages." Review of Economics and Statistics 63: 561-571.
16. Frey, William H. 1993. Race, Class and Poverty Polarization of U.S. Metro Areas: Findings from the 1990 Census. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Population Studies Center.
17. Friedrich, Robert J. 1982. "In Defense of Multiplicative Terms In Multiple Regression Equations." American Journal of Political Science 26: 797-833.
18. Gill, Andrew, and Stewart Long. 1989. "Is There an Immigration Status Wage Differential between Legal and Undocumented Workers?: Evidence from the Los Angeles Garment Industry." Social Science Quarterly 70: 164-173.
19. Handlin, Oscar. 1973. The Uprooted. New York: Little Brown.
20. Higgs, Robert. 1971. The Transformation of the American Economy, 1865-1914. New York: Wiley.
21. Flungerford, Thomas, and Gary Solon. 1987. "Sheepskin Effects in the Returns to Education." Review of Economics and Statistics 69: 175-177.
22. Johnson, Daniel M., and Rex R Campbell. 1981. Black Migration in America: A Social Demographic History. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.
23. Kuznets, Simon. 1977. "Two Centuries of Economic Growth: Reflection on U.S. Experience." American Economic Review 67: 1-14.
24. Levy, Frank, and Richard J. Murnane. 1992. "U.S. Earnings Levels and Earnings Inequality: A Review of Recent Trends and Proposed Explanations." Journal of Economic Literature 15: 1333-1381.
25. Muller, Thomas, and Thomas Espenshade. 1985. The Fourth Wave: California's Newest Immigrants. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press, 1985.
26. Rosen, Sherwin. 1970. "Unionism and the Occupational Wage Structure in the United States." Economic Review 11: 269-286.
27. Vedder, Richard, Lowell Gallaway, and Stephen Moore. 1994. "Immigration and Unemployment: New Evidence." Arlington, Va.: Alexis De Tocqueville Institution.
28. Wilson, William J. 1987. The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.