Do Low-skilled Immigrants Improve Native Productivity but Worsen Local Amenities? Learning from the South Korean Experience

This working paper by GMC director Giovanni Peri and his co-authors, pertains to a study from the years of 2010-2015. Moreover, the increase seen in low-skilled immigration in Korean municipalities. Furthermore, they studied the effects on local firms, wages, housing prices, and quality of local amenities. From the abstract, “These facts together suggest that immigration attracted natives who value labor income over local amenities but pushed out those who place a higher value on local amenities. Thus, immigration, while generating little net native migration, changed the composition of natives in Korean municipalities.”

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