addressed the questions whether and how immigration affects native workers’ labour market outcomes. In particular, it discusses …: the distinction between the displacement, productivity and amenity effects of immigration; the issues that arise in using … wage changes to identify those effects; and the problem of assessing a causal link from immigration to natives’ labour …

A central concern about immigration is the integration into the labour market, not only of the first generation, but …

). This might have consequences for immigration policy – how many immigrants to allow into a country and from what cultural …

supply conditions. Previous research on the effect of immigration on local house prices has argued that the impact of … apply it to Spanish data during the period 2002-2010 and I show that overlooking the impact of immigration on native …

factor in both cases was actually an upsurge of immigration from poor countries providing an elastic supply of cheap labour … regional data spanning 1975-2008, finding some support for both effects, but with immigration from poor countries as the …

of labour. But, existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native-born workers in the UK (e … an increase in immigration reduces the wages of immigrants relative to natives. We show this using a pooled time series …. This lack of substitution also means that there is little discernable effect of increased immigration on the wages of …

substantial evidence that immigration lowers the median annual wages of natives. The estimated negative effects are also much … endogenous changes in occupation and location attenuate the impact of immigration on natives’ wages. We also find much larger …Using a large administrative French panel data set for 1976-2007, we examine how low- educated immigration affects the …

market. On balance, the evidence for the UK labour market suggests that fears about the consequences of rising immigration … have been exaggerated. It is hard to find evidence of much displacement of UK workers or lower wages, on average … have experienced greater downward pressure on wages and greater competition for jobs than others, but these effects still …