This paper explores the effects of high skilled immigration to a host country with unionized low skilled labor and an … unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on … low skilled employment, provided that fiscal redistribution is not too intense and the elasticity between high and low …

association of firm-worker matches known as positive assortative matching (PAM). Immigration in a local labor market, by …

. We analyze Polish immigration in the context of the 2004 enlargement of the European Union and find a positive and … particularly interesting as Polish immigration to Germany was not based on selection by qualification in our period of analysis …

Prior literature on the economic impact of immigration has largely ignored changes to the composition of labor demand ….S. local industries. High-productivity establishments are more likely to enter and less likely to exit in high immigration …

What affects native support for immigration? At a time of rising anti-immigration sentiments, this is a question raised … reduces pro-immigration vote shares in municipalities with a relatively low-skilled native population. The negative response …

employment and wage of natives. I use a modified shift-share instrument based on past settlements to claim causality. Employment … effects were driven by increased entries to employment, while wage effects were limited to natives that were already employed …

Immigration policy can have important net fiscal effects that vary by immigrants’ skill level. But mainstream methods …

(elasticity +0.16) with no decrease or an increase in U.S. employment (elasticity +0.10, statistically imprecise) across several …

natives’ wages, and that skilled immigration can actually increase them. We develop a model with regional labor markets and … migrants are perfect substitutes within a firm. In this setting, a skilled labor supply shock due to immigration has two … wage adjustments. Second, the average native’s wage can be partially sheltered from the negative effect of immigration …