Regional Studies
Volume 36, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 97-112

Spatial job search and job competition among immigrant and native groups in Los Angeles (Article)

Stoll M.A.* , Melendez E. , Valenzuela Jr. A.
  • a Department of Policy Studies, Sch. of Public Policy and Soc. Res., University of California, Box 951656, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656, United States
  • b Department of Policy Studies, Sch. of Public Policy and Soc. Res., University of California, Box 951656, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656, United States
  • c Department of Policy Studies, Sch. of Public Policy and Soc. Res., University of California, Box 951656, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656, United States

Abstract

This paper examines the effect of immigrant job searchers on the employment and wages of native and immigrant groups in Los Angeles. Using data from the 1994 Los Angeles Survey of Urban Inequality (LASUI), we use variation in the spatial job search patterns of immigrant groups to estimate the effect of immigrant job searchers on natives' labour market outcomes. First, the results indicate that the spatial job search patterns of native and immigrant groups are positively correlated, although the spatial job search patterns of immigrant groups are more strongly correlated than those between immigrant and native groups. Second, our results show a negative influence of immigrants on the employment of more skilled native whites and on the employment and wages of less-skilled native blacks in blue-collar occupations. We also find both positive and negative immigrant effects on the employment and wages of immigrant groups.

Author Keywords

Immigration Geographic job search Job competition

Index Keywords

wage job search labor market employment Pierinae United States immigrant population
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-0036255220&doi=10.1080%2f00343400220121891&partnerID=40&md5=59e333c07805a7e442397b179ad9876b
DOI: 10.1080/00343400220121891
ISSN: 00343404
Cited by: 16
Original Language: English