Immigration and wage changes of high school dropouts

Monthly Labor Review, Oct, 1997 by Maria E. Enchautegui

(8) Maria E. Enchautegui, "Effects of Immigrants on the 1980-1990 Wage Experience," Contemporary Economic Policy, July 1995, pp. 20-38.

(9) See Reimers, The Widening Skill Differential.

(10) Trejo, Why Do Mexicans Earn Low Wages?

(11) See George J. Borjas, "Immigrants, Minorities, and Labor Market Competition," Industrial and Labor Relations, volt 40, no. 3, pp. 382-92; Robert J. LaLonde and Robert H. Topel, "Labor Market Adjustments to Increased Immigration," in John M. Abowd and Richard B. Freeman, eds., Immigration, Trade, and the Labor Market (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1991); and Enchautegui, "Effects of Immigrants."

(12) See Randall K. Filer, "The Effect of Immigrant Arrivals on Migratory Patterns of Native Workers," in George J. Borjas and Richard B. Freeman, eds., Immigration and the Work Force: Economic Consequences for the United States and Source Areas (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1992), pp. 245-70; and William H. Frey, "Immigration and Internal Migration `Flight' from U.S. Metropolitan Areas: Toward a New Demographic Balkanization," Urban Studies. vol. 32, nos. 4 and 5, 1995, pp. 733-57.

Maria E. Enchautegui is a senior research associate at the Urban Institute. Washington. DC. This research was supported by a grant from the Immigration and Naturalization Service and by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Opinions are those of the author and not of the funders or other staff of the Urban Institute.