This paper analyses the impact of skilled migrants on the innovation (patenting) activity of French firms between 1995 … endogeneity using a modified version of the shift-share instrument. Skilled migrants increase the number of patents at both the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

With the ensuing immigration reform in the US, the paper shows that targeted skilled immigration into the R&D sector … have spillover benefits for the unskilled sector while immigration into the production sector will always reduce wage … labor is not always benefited by high skilled migrants into R&D-sector. Rather, it depends on the importance of migrants …

Immigration policies in western democracies have often been contrary to the policies predicted by the mainstream theory … defection from worker-supported political-establishment parties to new-entrant anti-immigration political candidates and parties …

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 …