large, low-skill labor supply (immigration) shock generated by the 2004 expansion of the European Union to Eastern European …

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 …

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 …

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

differently in a host country's labor market, we examine employment and wages for these groups over time after arrival. There is … in employment rates than it is in wages. We also discuss how refugees are distinct in terms of other factors affecting …