https://macropaperwarehouse.com/authors/albrecht-glitz/Albrecht GlitzHugo -- gohugo.ioen-ushttps://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/labor-market-competition-and-the-assimilation-of-immigrants/https://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/labor-market-competition-and-the-assimilation-of-immigrants/<h3 id="research-question">Research Question</h3> <p>Why have immigrant-native wage gaps widened substantially across arrival cohorts in the United States since the 1960s, and why has the speed of wage convergence slowed? The paper argues that the existing literature, which attributes these trends entirely to declining immigrant cohort quality, omits a critical general-equilibrium channel: labor market competition arising from imperfect substitutability between immigrants and natives. The paper quantifies how much of the observed deterioration in wage assimilation profiles can be attributed to (i) increasing immigrant cohort sizes raising labor market competition, (ii) secular shifts in relative skill demand, and (iii) genuine changes in immigrant cohort quality.</p>