Do labor market concerns affect support for immigration? Using a large, representative sample of the US population, we … first elicit beliefs about the labor market impact of immigration. To generate exogenous variation in beliefs, we then … provide respondents in the treatment group with research evidence showing no adverse labor market impacts of immigration …

The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages … association of firm-worker matches known as positive assortative matching (PAM). Immigration in a local labor market, by …

time, the model predicts that foreign investors deduct the economic value of learning from wages of inexperienced workers …

establishment growth, vacancy filling and entry wages, we calibrate a model with directed search and ex-ante heterogeneous workers … response of vacancy filling to firm-level wages. We discuss the implications of this finding as well as potential resolutions …

. Our evidence suggests that employers capture about 6-14 percent of the transfers through lower wages when they mediate the …

cycle. While wages of the median establishment are moderately procyclical, 36 percent of establishments have countercyclical … wages. We estimate a negative connection between establishments’ wage cyclicality and their employment cyclicality, thereby …

. 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 …

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 …

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

This paper investigates the relationship between immigration and inequality in the UK over the past forty years. This … the impact immigration had on wage inequality in the UK through two channels: the first is the effect on the earnings … examine the impact of immigration on the fiscal budget, and the potentially unequal impact of the ensuing tax implications on …