This paper formulates a structural empirical model of heterogeneous firms whose workers exhibit fair-wage preferences … the model in a data-set of five European economies. The model predicts an exporter wage premium, which we find to be … find that openness to international trade has quantitatively important effects, leading to higher wage inequality and lower …

state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects … of immigration on labor market outcomes of native workers within a given state-skill cell are more negative in U ….S. States with low minimum wages (i.e., where the federal minimum wage is binding). The results are robust to instrumenting …

geographical and cultural, immigration policies and migrant networks. Differentiating immigrants by their educational attainments …

liberal access to citizenship improves the economic integration of immigrants. Our analysis relies on two major immigration …

is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an …

This paper formulates a structural empirical model of heterogeneous firms whose workers exhibit fair-wage preferences … the model in a data-set of five European economies. The model predicts an exporter wage premium, which we find to be … find that openness to international trade has quantitatively important effects, leading to higher wage inequality and lower …

We develop a general model of legal and illegal immigration to understand the basic tradeoffs faced by a government in … the decision to implement an immigration amnesty in the presence of a selective immigration policy. We show that two …

We study immigration policy in a small receiving economy under self-selection of migrants. We show that a non …-discriminatory immigration policy choice affects and is affected by the migratory decisions of skilled and unskilled foreign workers. From this … interaction multiple equilibria may arise, which are driven by the natives' expectations on the welfare effects of immigration. In …

Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … controls the information related to the immigration stock it could delay the mass entry of immigrants, maintaining the required …

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 …