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 … literature, overall immigration generates a large positive effect on the average wages of US-born workers. We show evidence of …

This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national U.S. level. Following Borjas … evaluate the competition as well as cross-skill complementary effects of immigrants on wages. We also emphasize the importance … degree (-0.7%) and on average wages (-0.4%) while it had small positive effects on nativeworkers with no high school degree …

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 … natives of different schooling levels we find positive effects on the wages and rents of highly educated and small effects on …

existing method may yield positive or negative externalities even if wages reflect marginal social products. We propose an …

period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …

1990, we find that at the urban level richer diversity is systematically associated with higher average nominal wages for … the positive correlation between wages and diversity survives a battery of robustness checks, it seems to be larger once … wages. Comparing real and nominal wages across cities, we interpret these results as evidence that diversity enhances …