Attenuation Bias in Measuring the Wage Impact of Immigration.
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 workfor...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Labor Economics Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 69 - 113 |
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University of Chicago Press
January 2011
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