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 …

change in Complex/Non Complex task supply from natives and immigrants we find that immigration does not change much the …

(especially the young and low-tenured ones) to pursue less manual-intensive occupations. As a result immigration had positive …