Journal article
Immigration and real wages
- Abstract:
- This paper derives conditions under which immigration may raise nominal and real wages in a small open economy. The mechanism for such a paradoxical outcome is a demand-induced increase in the prices of labour-intensive non-traded goods.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Economics Letters Journal website
- Volume:
- 30
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 171-174
- Publication date:
- 1989-08-01
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0165-1765
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- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:2202
- Deposit date:
- 2008-07-23
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- Copyright holder:
- Elsevier Science BV
- Copyright date:
- 1989
- Notes:
- N.B. Professor Neary was based at University College Dublin when this article was first published. The full-text of this article is not available in ORA at this time. Citation: Neary, P. J. (1989). 'Immigration and real wages', Economics Letters, 30(2), 171-174. [Available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01651765].
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