Does the emigration of skilled individuals necessarily result in losses for source countries due to the brain drain …? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively …

immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining …, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter … effect if it targets employed workers because this leads to a risk premium in their wages. Finally, I present empirical …

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 … unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human …

profiles. Our study also explains the willingness of immigrants to accept jobs at wages that seem unacceptable to natives …

We relate origin-destination real price differences to immigrants' reservation wages and their career trajectories … Germany when a unit of earnings from Germany allows for larger consumption at home settle for lower entry wages, but …