Firms play a central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United …

High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for … comparable quality to natives. The exception to this is that immigrants have a disproportionate impact among the very highest … achievers (e.g., Nobel Prize winners). Studies regarding the impact of immigrants on natives tend to find limited consequences …

percentage of immigrants in the labor force. It received a very large number of uneducated immigrants so that two thirds of … workers with no schooling degree in California were foreign-born in 2004. If immigration harms the labor opportunities of …. But is it possible that immigrants raised the demand for California's native workers, rather than harming it? After all …

Recent influential empirical work has emphasized the negative impact immigrants have on the wages of U.S.-born workers … impact of the relative skill levels of immigrants on the relative wages of U.S. workers. However, contrary to the findings of …

impact of immigrants on wages of U.S.-born workers can be evaluated only by accounting carefully for labor market and capital … market interactions in production. Using such a general equilibrium approach we estimate that immigrants are imperfect …

of less-educated immigrants would reduce wages paid to comparably-educated native-born workers if the two groups compete …