natives' wages, and that skilled immigration can actually increase them. We develop a model with regional labor markets and … migrants are perfect substitutes within a firm. In this setting, a skilled labor supply shock due to immigration has two … but skill-biased on aggregate, skilled immigration can increase absolute and relative skilled wages. Therefore, firm …

. Discussing the ways in which refugees and economic migrants are differently selected and so might be expected to perform … differently in a host country's labor market, we examine employment and wages for these groups over time after arrival. There is … migrants. While the gaps between the groups can be seen to decrease on a timescale of a decade or two, this is more pronounced …

Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus …

immigration. We also find that conservative voters in Sweden are more likely to prefer freer trade but higher immigration barriers … attitudes towards globalization barriers (trade and immigration) and how important these attitudes are in how people vote. In … statistical significance while attitudes towards immigration barriers remain significant. This suggests that immigration attitudes …

1976. I find that regional wages decline between 1962 and 1968, before returning to their pre-shock level 15 years after …. While regional wages recovered, this particular supply shock had persistent distributional effects. By increasing the …

The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and … accounting for human capital endowments. Our analysis confirms the previous finding of limited effect of immigration on … unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human …

preferences over immigration. Using data from the European Social Survey from 2014 and 2015, our results document that individual … norms and values strongly shape preferences over immigration, even when controlling for expected costs and benefits from … immigration. In particular, we find that altruistic attitudes significantly raise the support for all types of immigration while …

We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …