TY  - JOUR
AU  - Aydemir,Abdurrahman
AU  - Borjas,George J.
TI  - A Comparative Analysis of the Labor Market Impact of International Migration: Canada, Mexico, and the United States
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 12327
PY  - 2006
Y2  - June 2006
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12327
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12327.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Abdurrahman Aydemir
Sabanci University
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Istanbul, Turkey
E-Mail: aaydemir@sabanciuniv.edu

George J. Borjas
Harvard Kennedy School
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617/495-1393
Fax: 617/495-9532
E-Mail: gborjas@harvard.edu
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 2006-06-26
AB  - Using data drawn from the Canadian, Mexican, and U.S. Censuses, we find a numerically comparable and statistically significant inverse relation between immigrant-induced shifts in labor supply and wages in each of the three countries: A 10 percent labor supply shift is associated with a 3 to 4 percent opposite-signed change in wages. Despite the similarity in the wage response, the impact of migration on the wage structure differs significantly across countries. International migration narrowed wage inequality in Canada; increased it in the United States; and reduced the relative wage of workers at the bottom of the skill distribution in Mexico.
ER  -