It is now well known that exogenous immigration shocks tend to have benign effects on native employment outcomes … the effects of an immigration shock on labor demand by testing a general equilibrium model in which imperfectly … substitutable native and immigrant workers spend their wages on a locally produced good. The shock induces three responses: (i) a …

This paper studies the impact of the minimum wage on immigration. A framework is presented in which inflows of … using the fraction of affected workers as the instrumental variable for the growth of expected wages. The findings show that … States in which the growth of expected wages was relatively large (around 20%) exhibit inflow rate increases that are four to …

provinces of origin. We find no systemic differences by province of origin in the hourly wages of male and female migrants …

Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common … immigration. The labour immigration expanded for example after the enlargement in 2004 but not so much as in for example the … United Kingdom and Ireland. Other forms of immigration have been more important. On the other hand, the migration has been …

primarily rewards individual characteristics other than immigration status. We also found that the lowest paid immigrants, whom … proportionately larger non-white and lower paid white immigration. …

In this paper, we study gains and losses that accrue to natives because of immigration. The gain on the aggregated … level is called the ‘immigration surplus’, which can be seen as analogous to a consumer surplus. We derive changes in the … the immigration surplus. …