We estimate empirically the effect of immigration on house prices and residential construction activity in Spain over … the period 1998-2008. This decade is characterized by both a spectacular housing market boom and a stunning immigration … wave. We exploit the variation in immigration across Spanish provinces and construct an instrument based on the historical …

We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … shocks, and, hence, the labor market effects of immigration. We employ a wage-setting approach which assumes that wages … to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment rate …

-educated foreign and native-born workers specialize in performing different tasks, immigration will cause natives to reallocate their … tasks. Immigration induces natives to specialize accordingly. Simulations show that this increased specialization might … explain why economic analyses commonly find only modest wage and employment consequences of immigration for less …

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 …

Economic debate about the consequences of immigration in the US has largely focused on how influxes of foreign … effect of immigration within the market for highly-educated labor. We use O*NET data on job characteristics to assess whether … completeness, we also assess whether immigration causes highlyeducated natives to lose their jobs or move across state boundaries …

In the past 25 years immigration has re-emerged as a driving force in the size and composition of U.S. cities. This … paper describes the effects of immigration on overall population growth and the skill composition of cities, focusing on the …, these offsetting flows are small, so most cities with higher rates of immigration have experienced overall population growth …

inflows can therefore be seen as a natural experiment of immigration, avoiding the typical endogeneity problem of immigrant …

wages and employment of younger and lesseducated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the misfortunes … immigration. An IV strategy, which deals with the endogeneity of immigration by exploiting a large influx of Central American … educated native men. Yet, ignoring the flows of native and earlier immigrants in response to this exogeneous immigration is …