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 …

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 …

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 estimate that increased immigration has a negative and significant effect on natives' employment rates -- and that … immigration has a negative and significant effect on natives' total income but not on employment rates. Our results are consistent …Using census data for 1996, 2001 and 2007 we study the labor market effect of immigration to South Africa. The paper …

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 …

in the population increases patents per capita by 6%. This could be an overestimate of immigration's benefit if immigrant …

One of the most controversial aspects of immigration policy is the impact of foreigners on labour market outcomes of … second part we offer a further argument for a potential detrimental effect of immigration: if wages are negotiated at the …