The Impact of Immigration on the Geographic Mobility of New Zealanders.

• Autores: David C. Maré, Steven Stillman
• Localización: Economic record, ISSN 0013-0249, Vol. 86, Nº. 273, 2010, págs. 247-259
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • We use data from the New Zealand Census to examine how the arrival of new migrants affects the geographic mobility of the New Zealand (NZ)-born and earlier migrants. We identify the impact of recent migration by exploiting the fact that immigration is spatially concentrated, and therefore a change in the local supply of migrants in a particular skill-group should have an impact on the mobility of similarly skilled non-migrants in that local labour market. Overall, our results provide little support for the hypothesis that migrant inflows displace either the NZ-born or earlier migrants with similar skills in the areas that new migrants are settling.