We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of …

Economists are often puzzled by the stronger public opposition to immigration than trade, since the two policies have … similar effects on wages. Unlike trade, however, immigration can alter the composition of the local population, imposing … toward immigration. We use data for 21 countries in the 2002 European Social Survey, which included a series of questions on …

associated with lower employment rates among natives and earlier immigrants, but with relatively small effects on the relative … wage structure. The estimates imply that immigrant arrivals between 1985 and 1990 depressed the employment rate of low …

some displacement out of low-wage immigrant-intensive industries. We find little effect of immigration on the employment …This paper examines the effects of immigration on the labor market outcomes of less-skilled natives. Working from a … simple model of a local labor market, we show that the effects of immigration can be estimated from the correlations between …

Standard models suggest that adverse labor demand shocks will lead to bigger employment losses if institutional factors … explains the contrast between the United States, where real wages fell over the 1980s and aggregate employment expanded … vigorously, and Europe, where real wages were (roughly) constant and employment was stagnant. We test this hypothesis by …