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Raw labor market data systematically hides the wage impacts of immigration behind endogenous worker sorting.
Failing to adjust for the non-random geographic attraction of immigrants and the selective workforce exits of native workers produces severe econometric biases that obscure real wage changes.
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Immigration and Wages
CEPII Meta-Analysis (2025): The Comprehensive Wage Effects of Immigration It reveals that the non-random geographic self-sorting of immigrants toward high-growth markets introduces positive selection bias that masks true wage impacts in standard OLS estimates.
Immigration and Wages
Selection Bias in Native Responses: Reconciling the Employment and Wage Impacts of Immigration Selective labor-force exit among the lowest-wage natives mechanically inflates the observed average wage, hiding a true elasticity of -0.7 to -0.9.