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 …

regions. Even in a free trade regime the removal of the restrictions on labor movements would benefit Europe as a whole by … increasing the GNP of Eastern and Western Europe. Interestingly, we also find that the resulting skilled migration (the so …-called "brain drain") from Eastern European countries would not only benefit the migrants but, through trade, could benefit the …

percentage of immigrants in the labor force. It received a very large number of uneducated immigrants so that two thirds of …. But is it possible that immigrants raised the demand for California's native workers, rather than harming it? After all … immigrants have different skills and tend to work in different occupations then natives and hence they may raise productivity and …

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 …, customs, and language -- to pursue jobs requiring interactive tasks such as coordinating, organizing, and communicating …

employment levels. It had instead adverse employment and wage effects on previous waves of immigrants. This stems from the fact … whereas new and old immigrants exhibit perfect substitutability. Our analysis suggests that if the German labor market were as …

evaluate the competition as well as cross-skill complementary effects of immigrants on wages. We also emphasize the importance … immigrants and workers with no degree. We then estimate the substitutability between natives and immigrants and we find a small … but significant degree of imperfect substitution which further decreases the competitive effect of immigrants. Finally, we …