Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers …

also use the 1991 distribution of immigrants by nationality across European labor markets to construct a version of the … enclave-based instrument to proxy for the flow of immigrants, that is exogenous to local demand shocks. We find that native … Europeans are more likely to upgrade to more skilled and better paid occupations, when a larger number of immigrants enter their …

Large inflows of less educated immigrants may reduce wages paid to comparably-educated, native-born workers. However …

Eastern European members of the EU. We then simulate the effects of freer trade and higher labor mobility between the two …

percentage of immigrants in the labor force. It received a very large number of uneducated immigrants so that two thirds of …. But is it possible that immigrants raised the demand for California's native workers, rather than harming it? After all … immigrants have different skills and tend to work in different occupations then natives and hence they may raise productivity and …

Recent influential empirical work has emphasized the negative impact immigrants have on the wages of U.S.-born workers … impact of the relative skill levels of immigrants on the relative wages of U.S. workers. However, contrary to the findings of …

Recent influential empirical work has emphasized the negative impact immigrants have on the wages of US-born workers … relative skill levels of immigrants on the relative wages of US workers. However, contrary to the findings of previous …

evaluate the competition as well as cross-skill complementary effects of immigrants on wages. We also emphasize the importance … immigrants and workers with no degree. We then estimate the substitutability between natives and immigrants and we find a small … but significant degree of imperfect substitution which further decreases the competitive effect of immigrants. Finally, we …

impact of immigrants on wages of U.S.-born workers can be evaluated only by accounting carefully for labor market and capital … market interactions in production. Using such a general equilibrium approach we estimate that immigrants are imperfect …

of less-educated immigrants would reduce wages paid to comparably-educated native-born workers if the two groups compete …