This paper reviews a growing literature investigating how ‘immigrant’ diversity relates to urban economic performance …. As distinct from the labor-supply focus of much of the economics of immigration, this paper reviews work that examines …

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

Immigration to the UK has risen in the past 10 years and has had a measurable effect on the supply of different types … 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 paper examines the relationship between immigration and crime in a setting where large migration flows offer an … consider possible crime effects from two large waves of immigration that recently occurred in the UK. The first of these was …

There is economic evidence that diversity has consequences for economic performance (see Alesina and La Ferrara, 2005 …). This might have consequences for immigration policy – how many immigrants to allow into a country and from what cultural …

Using a large administrative French panel data set for 1976-2007, we examine how low- educated immigration affects the …-educated immigrants. We first show that larger immigration inflows into locations are accompanied by larger outflows of negatively … substantial evidence that immigration lowers the median annual wages of natives. The estimated negative effects are also much …

market. On balance, the evidence for the UK labour market suggests that fears about the consequences of rising immigration … appear to have been modest. Unfortunately we do not know much about whether the effects of immigration are different in … downturns. We also need to understand more about how capital and sectoral shifts in demand respond to immigration over the …