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1. Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native

   Patrick Wolfe · 2006 · Journal of Genocide Research · 6,365 cites

   The question of genocide is never far from discussions of settler colonialism. Land is life—or, at least, land is necessary for life. Thus contests for land can be—indeed, often are—contests for li...

2. Immigrant Inflows, Native Outflows, and the Local Labor Market Impacts of Higher Immigration

   David Card · 2001 · Journal of Labor Economics · 2,353 cites

   This article uses 1990 census data to study the effects of immigrant inflows on occupation‐specific labor market outcomes. I find that intercity mobility rates of natives and earlier immigrants are insensitive to immigrant inflows. However, occupation‐specific wages and employment rates are systematically lower in cities with higher relative supplies of workers in a given occupation. The results imply that immigrant inflows over the 1980s reduced wages and employment rates of low‐skilled natives in traditional gateway cities like Miami and Los Angeles by 1–3 percentage points.

3. Public Attitudes Toward Immigration

   Jens Hainmueller, Daniel J. Hopkins · 2014 · Annual Review of Political Science · 1,697 cites

   Immigrant populations in many developed democracies have grown rapidly, and so too has an extensive literature on natives' attitudes toward immigration. This research has developed from two theoretical foundations, one grounded in political economy, the other in political psychology. These two literatures have developed largely in isolation from one another, yet the conclusions that emerge from each are strikingly similar. Consistently, immigration attitudes show little evidence of being strongly correlated with personal economic circumstances. Instead, research finds that immigration attitudes are shaped by sociotropic concerns about its cultural impacts—and to a lesser extent its economic

4. The Labor Demand Curve is Downward Sloping: Reexamining the Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market

   George J. Borjas · 2003 · National Bureau of Economic Research · 1,441 cites

   Immigration is not evenly balanced across groups of workers that have the same education but differ in their work experience, and the nature of the supply imbalance changes over time.This paper develops a new approach for estimating the labor market impact of immigration by exploiting this variation in supply shifts across education-experience groups.I assume that similarly educated workers with different levels of experience participate in a national labor market and are not perfect substitutes.The analysis indicates that immigration lowers the wage of competing workers: a 10 percent increase in supply reduces wages by 3 to 4 percent.

5. Task Specialization, Immigration, and Wages

   Giovanni Peri, Chad Sparber · 2009 · American Economic Journal Applied Economics · 897 cites

   Large inflows of less educated immigrants may reduce wages paid to comparably-educated, native-born workers. However, if less educated foreign- and native-born workers specialize in different production tasks, because of different abilities, immigration will cause natives to reallocate their task supply, thereby reducing downward wage pressure. Using occupational task-intensity data from the O*NET dataset and individual US census data, we demonstrate that foreign-born workers specialize in occupations intensive in manual-physical labor skills while natives pursue jobs more intensive in communication-language tasks. This mechanism can explain why economic analyses find only modest wage conseq

6. How Much Do Immigration and Trade Affect Labor Market Outcomes?

   George J. Borjas, Richard B. Freeman, Lawrence F. Katz, et al. · 1997 · Brookings Papers on Economic Activity · 897 cites

   "This paper provides new estimates of the impact of immigration and trade on the U.S. labor market.... We examine the relation between economic outcomes for native workers and immigrant flows to regional labor markets.... We...use the factor proportions approach to examine the contributions of immigration and trade to recent changes in U.S. educational wage differentials and attempt to provide a broader assessment of the impact of immigration on the incomes of U.S. natives." Comments and discussion by John DiNardo, John M. Abowd, and others are included (pp. 68-85).

7. Native Internal Migration and the Labor Market Impact of Immigration

   G. Borjas, B. Chiswick · 2019 · Foundations of Migration Economics · 447 cites

   This chapter presents a theoretical and empirical study of how immigration influences the joint determination of the wage structure and internal migration behavior for native-born workers in local labor markets. Using data from the 1960–2000 decennial censuses, the study shows that immigration is associated with lower in-migration rates, higher out-migration rates, and a decline in the growth rate of the native workforce. The native migration response attenuates the measured impact of immigration on wages in a local labor market by 40 to 60 percent, depending on whether the labor market is defined at the state or metropolitan area level.

8. IMMIGRATION, WAGES, AND COMPOSITIONAL AMENITIES

   David Card, Christian Dustmann, Ian Preston · 2011 · Journal of the European Economic Association · 424 cites

   There is strong public opposition to increased immigration throughout Europe. Given the modest economic impacts of immigration estimated in most studies, the depth of anti-immigrant sentiment is puzzling. Immigration, however, does not just affect wages and taxes. It also changes the composition of the local population, threatening the compositional amenities that natives derive from their neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces. In this paper we use a simple latent-factor model, combined with data for 21 countries from the 2002 European Social Survey (ESS), to measure the relative importance of economic and compositional concerns in driving opinions about immigration policy. The ESS included