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 …

In this paper we document a strong positive correlation of immigration flows with changes in average wages and average … compatible with a causal interpretation from immigration to wages and rents of natives. Separating the effects of immigrants on … useful tool to evaluate the impacts of alternative immigration scenarios on U.S. wages and rents. …

How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation … immigration does not, but rather reduces the share of offshored jobs instead. Moreover, since both phenomena have a positive "cost …

the determination of the size of the immigration flow given a fixed minimum wage and the level of unemployment in the … union objective function and on whether labour is heterogeneous, an optimal size of immigration may exist. These …

, arguing that immigration harms less educated American workers in particular and all US-born workers in general. Because US and … literature, overall immigration generates a large positive effect on the average wages of US-born workers. We show evidence of … this positive effect by estimating the impact of immigration on both average wages and housing values across US …

This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national U.S. level. Following Borjas … account for the short run and long run adjustment of capital in response to immigration. Using our estimates and Census data … we find that immigration (1990-2006) had small negative effects in the short run on native workers with no high school …

display lower levels of education, lower rates of self-employment and higher unemployment rates than natives and immigrants …