Cross-occupational Effects of Immigration on Native Wages in the UK
Alfano, Marco and Mckenzie, Ross and Roy, Graeme (2020) Cross-occupational Effects of Immigration on Native Wages in the UK. Preprint / Working Paper. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
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Abstract
This paper estimates the effect of immigration into an occupation on the wages of natives working in other, better paid occupations. Using Annual Population Survey data from the UK we rank occupations by real hourly wage and find that increases in the migrant/native ratio raise average wages of natives working in the next higher paid occupation by around 0.13 percent. We find that these effects operate through migrants' higher educational attainments raising workplace productivity more broadly and supporting specialization in tasks. Our findings have important implications for policy and public discourse. They suggest that debates over the economic impacts of migration often ignore the potential spill-over benefits that a migrant can bring to the outcomes for native workers elsewhere in the wage distribution, particularly in lower wage occupations.
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Alfano, Marco ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5491-2054, Mckenzie, Ross and Roy, Graeme;-
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Item type: Monograph(Preprint / Working Paper) ID code: 75751 Dates: DateEvent14 August 2020PublishedNotes: Strathclyde Discussion Papers in Economics No. 20-11. Subjects: Social Sciences > Economic History and Conditions Department: Strathclyde Business School > Economics
Strathclyde Business School > Fraser of Allander InstituteDepositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 11 Mar 2021 10:22 Last modified: 15 Sep 2024 01:16 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/75751