We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …

This paper studies the effect of increased immigration in Austria on the risk to natives of becoming unemployed …

), two-sector trade model to analyse the determinants of voter attitudes towards immigration under direct democracy and … stiffening attitudes towards low-skill capital-poor immigration. If the import-competing sector is intensive in the use of low … sector leads nationals to oppose immigration of capital-poor low-skill households. An increase in income inequality is also …

The selection of immigrants by skill and education is a central issue in the analysis of immigration. Since highly … what determines the skill-selectivity of immigration. In this paper we examine the proportions of highly educated among …

, there are sufficient conditions for immigration to raise total employment. We then estimate the effects of immigration on …In this paper we construct a simple model of the effects of immigration on the labour market outcomes of natives. In … wages and employment of both types of workers across Spanish provinces following the lifting of some restrictions on …

We analyse the impact of increased immigration on labour market outcomes of natives in Germany using a dataset of … county-level variables for the late 1980s. We study two measures of immigration, the change in the share of foreigners … unemployment. Taking account of the mean reversion in unemployment we find no detrimental effect of immigration. Similar results …

While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration policy, there is no … combining information on the number of temporary work visas with data on lobbying activity associated with immigration. We find … robust evidence that both pro- and anti-immigration interest groups play a statistically significant and economically …

Immigration as a source of population growth is traditionally represented by neoclassical growth models with negative …