Arbeitspapier

Does immigration crowd natives into or out of higher education?

This paper investigates the impact of immigration on the college enrollment of U.S. natives. Many studies have focused on the effect of increased demand for schooling by immigrants on the enrollment of natives. However, changes in immigrant labor supply may also affect native enrollment by changing local market prices. Using U.S. Census data from 1970 to 2000, I find that state-level increases in the number of immigrant college students do not significantly lower the enrollment rates of U.S. natives. On the contrary, state-level increases in the ratio of unskilled immigrant workers to skilled immigrant workers significantly raise native enrollment rates. These findings suggest that the demand for college is sensitive to wage rates and that college slots are flexibly supplied over a decadal time horizon.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Papers ; No. 15-18

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Labor Demand
State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
Thema
immigration
native college enrollment
labor market
crowd out

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Jackson, Osborne
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
(wo)
Boston, MA
(wann)
2015

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Jackson, Osborne
  • Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Entstanden

  • 2015

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