"German and European immigration policies have only recently begun to cope with the inevitable: growing labor demand in …'s first immigration act and several European initiatives towards legal harmonization at the EU level, an actively controlling … immigration policy which would be needed to master the challenges ahead, is not yet in sight. Against this background, the book …

to estimate how changes in the supply of immigrant workers affected natives' wages in the US. We begin by extending the … passes validity tests and has reasonably strong power. Second, we provide estimates of the impact of immigration on the … of natives in response to immigrants. Using these estimates, we calculate that immigration, thanks to native …

Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers … countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and only modest effects on wage differentials between more and less … educated immigrant and native workers. Native workers' wages have been insulated by differences in skills, adjustments in local …