The Morning Call:
Anthony Patrick O?Brien: Why immigration is good for the U.S. economy
30 January 2018
Gianmarco Ottaviano of the London School of Economics and Giovanni Peri of UC, Davis, looking at U.S. labor markets, estimate that between 1990 and 2006 new immigrants reduced wages of previous immigrants by about 7 percent but did not affect wages of native-born workers. This study has its critics as well. Given the difficulty of separating the effect of immigration from other factors determining wages, economists may never settle this issue. But it seems unlikely that immigration has had much impact on wages.
Related publications
‘Rethinking the effect of immigration on wages’, Gianmarco Ottaviano and Giovanni Peri, Journal of the European Economic Association, Volume 10, Issue 1, February 2012
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1542-4774.2011.01052.x/abstract
‘Immigration, Offshoring, and American Jobs’, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Giovanni Peri and Greg C. Wright, American Economic Review, Volume 103, No.5, August 2013