Albert, ChristophGlitz, AlbrechtLlull, JoanUniversitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa2024-11-142024-11-142021-08-01http://hdl.handle.net/10230/68665This paper shows that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between individual skill accumulation and dynamic labor market equilibrium effects. When immigrants and natives are imperfect substitutes, rising immigrant inflows widen the wage gap between them. Using a production function framework in wich workers supply both general and host-country-specific skills, we show that this labor market competition channel explains about one fifth of the large increase in the average immigrant-native wage gap across arrival cohorts in the United States since the 1960s. This figure increases to one third after also accounting for relative demand shifts due to technological change.application/pdfengL'accés als continguts d'aquest document queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative CommonsLabor market competition and the assimilation of immigrants<resourceType xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" resourceTypeGeneral="Other">info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper</resourceType><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">immigrant assimilation</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">labor market competition</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">cohort sizes</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">imperfect substitution</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">general and specific skills</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">Labour, Public, Development and Health Economics</subject><rights xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3">info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</rights>