这是一篇最新的关于国际移民对迁入地劳动力市场影响的综述性文章,对近20年来有关这一课题的文献做了很好的梳理,重要的文献都有涉及,且评价相对公允,这一点在目前的乱局中并不容易做到。根据文中的脚注,这篇文章的最终稿会收录在预计在2014年出版的由Chiswick等主编的“The Handbook on the Economics of International Migration”中。
1 论文标题:Immigration and the Distribution of Incomes
2 作者信息:Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn
3 出处和链接:IZA DP No. 6921,
http://ftp.iza.org/dp6921.pdf
4 摘要:We review research on the impact of immigration on income distribution. We discuss routes through which immigration can affect income distribution in the host and source countries, including compositional effects and effects on native incomes. Immigration may affect the composition of skills among the residents of a country. Moreover, immigrants can, by changing relative factor supplies, affect native wage and employment rates and the return to capital. We then provide evidence on the level and recent increases in immigration to OECD countries and on the distribution of native and immigrant educational attainment. We next provide a decomposition of 1979-2009 changes in US wage inequality, highlighting the effects of immigration on workforce composition. We then consider the economic theory of the impact of immigration on income distribution, emphasizing labor market substitution and complementarity between natives and immigrants. Further, by changing job opportunities or child care availability, immigrants can affect family, as well as individual, income distribution. We review research methodologies used to estimate the impact of immigration on the native income distribution. These include the structural approach (estimating substitution and complementarity among factors of production, including capital and labor force groups) as well as the natural experiment approach (seeking exogenous sources of variation in immigration) to studying the labor market. We then discuss evidence on these questions for Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Portugal, Spain and the United States, as well as the impact of emigration on source country income distribution.