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

Many European countries restrict immigration from new EU member countries. The rationale is to avoid adverse wage and …

Germany. We examine their effect on today’s productivity, wages, income, rents, education, and population density at the … estimate that exposure to the arrival of refugees raised income per capita by around 13% and hourly wages by around 10% …After the end of World War II in 1945, millions of refugees arrived in what in 1949 became the Federal Republic of …

in employment rates than it is in wages. We also discuss how refugees are distinct in terms of other factors affecting …We provide an overview of the integration of refugees into the labor markets of a number of high-income countries …. Discussing the ways in which refugees and economic migrants are differently selected and so might be expected to perform …

About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and … Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and … irregular migrants for multiple origin and destination countries. Refugees and female irregular migrants are positively self …

This paper studies the employment and reallocation effects of minimum wages in Germany in a search-and-matching model … worker and firm heterogeneity. I find that minimum wages up to 70% of the median wage significantly increase productivity …

I discuss the econometrics and the economics of past research on the effects of minimum wages on employment in the … answer about the employment effects of minimum wages. My secondary goal is to discuss how we can narrow the range of … some insights from both theory and past evidence that may be informative about the effects of high minimum wages, and try …

wage bin throughout the monthly wage distribution. We find that, after one month, wages increased by 17 to 37 percent for …