Attenuation bias in measuring the wage impact of immigration / Abdurrahman Aydemir, George J. Borjas.
| Author/creator | Aydemir, Abdurrahman |
| Other author | Borjas, George J. |
| Other author | National Bureau of Economic Research. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, MA : National Bureau of Economic Research, |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from NBER Working Papers |
| Series | NBER working paper series ; working paper 16229 Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ; working paper no. 16229. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Summary | "Although economic theory predicts an inverse relation between relative wages and immigration-induced supply shifts, it has been difficult to document such effects. The weak evidence may be partly due to sampling error in a commonly used measure of the supply shift, the immigrant share of the workforce. After controlling for permanent factors that determine wages in specific labor markets, little variation remains in the immigrant share. We find significant sampling error in this measure of supply shifts in Canadian and U.S. Census data. Correcting for the resulting attenuation bias can substantially increase existing estimates of the wage impact of immigration"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site. |
| General note | Title from PDF file as viewed on 9/2/2010. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Other forms | Also available in print. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010656386 |
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