high school degree). A precise assessment of the average and relative effects of immigrants on U.S. wages, however, needs … adjustment of physical capital induced by immigration, the conventional finding of immigration’s impact on native wages is turned … on its head: overall immigration over the 1980- 2000 period significantly increased the average wages of U …

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 …

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