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Aggressive narrowing of skill definitions manufactures local wage shocks.
Whether immigration appears to harm native workers depends entirely on how narrowly researchers draw the boundaries around competing labor cohorts and control comparison groups.
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Immigration and Wages
CEPII Meta-Analysis (2025): The Comprehensive Wage Effects of Immigration It proves that the measured impact of immigration shifts from negligible to highly negative depending on how narrowly occupational boundaries are drawn.
Immigration and Wages
The Mariel Boatlift Debate: Card's No-Effect Finding vs. Borjas's Reanalysis It shows how aggressively narrowing the definition of the target cohort can artificially produce the appearance of a severe local wage decline.