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Immigration Policy and U.S. Labor Market Dynamics

Date: 2022-11-02
Speaker: Jiaming Mao
Speaker Intro: Assistant Professor at Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE)
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Description:  Abstract
This paper studies labor market response to immigration by estimating a structural dynamic general equilibrium model of the U.S. labor market and using the estimated model to analyze the effects of alternative immigration policies. The model features a multi-sector economy with heterogenous native and immigrant workers who are imperfect substitutes in production. Labor supply is endogenous and workers self-select into their sectors of employment subject to costly mobility. The model is fit to the Current Population Survey. Using the estimated model as a basis for counter-factual experiements, the paper compares the wage and employment dynamics following the implementation of alternative immigration policies and calculates the resulting welfare gains and losses to different types of workers.
Time: 2015-04-28(Tuesday)16:40-18:00
Venue: N302 Economics Building
Organizer: WISE-SOE

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