state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects …We exploit the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across US States created by the coexistence of federal and … of immigration on labor market outcomes of native workers within a given state-skill cell are more negative in U …

respects except of the prevailing labor market institutions. In one country, the labor market is perfectly competitive, while … in the other country labor unions are active in a subset of industries. The differences in labor market institutions are … setting, we study the trade and welfare implications of labor market deregulation and compare these implications with the …

sectors, affect sector-specific wages, employment levels and aggregate welfare in a two-country model of general oligopolistic …

unions can be desirable for income redistribution. Unions bargain with firms over wages in each sector and firms unilaterally … whose participation is subsidized on a net basis. By creating implicit taxes on work, unions alleviate the labor-market …

account for the cost of higher wages as mobility allows them to partially shift the burden of unemployment to other UIs. A …

skilled workers, for not too high distortions in the labour market. Furthermore, it leads to a higher tax burden and a welfare …

-specific policy wedge corrects labor market imperfections and/or redistributes welfare across differently wealthy agents. Capital … market integration with the rest of the world, indexed by another wedge, shapes the politico-economic equilibrium policy …