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 …

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 … immigration as well as state minimum wages, and to implementing a difference-in-differences strategy comparing U.S. States where …

"societal population aging" is the old-age dependency ratio. "Attitudes" are taken from immigration related questions in eight … effect of societal population aging on individual attitudes towards immigration is negative in young societies and positive …This research empirically establishes the hypothesis that the process of population aging in a society as a whole …

attitudes. Along with the subjects’ receptiveness to right-wing populism, we elicit their perceived relative income positions in … a representative survey of German households. We find that people with pessimistic beliefs about their income position … differences in the mechanism: Misperception triggers income dissatisfaction for both men and women, but the former are much more …

I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous … low-skilled workers lose from unskilled immigration even if the indigenous low-skilled workers do not finance …

with ten to forty years of observations from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics. We find that neither is strongly …

Immigration may impact income distribution both by affecting the skill composition of a country's residents, and, by … immigration on the native income distribution. We then survey the evidence on this question for several countries, and conclude by … focus primarily on factor prices. We first consider the economic theory of the impact of immigration on factor prices and …