We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …

migration from new EU members countries, we find moderate negative wage effects, combined with increased unemployment for some …Many European countries restrict immigration from new EU member countries. The rationale is to avoid adverse wage and … unemployment which we model in a price-wage-setting framework. Simulating a counterfactual scenario without restrictions for …

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …