, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter … immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining …This paper explores the impact of undocumented as opposed to documented immigration in a model featuring search …

compare their wage assimilation to that of ethnic German immigrants from Eastern Bloc countries and international immigrants … education. However, these disadvantages were smaller than those of international immigrants, supporting the beneficial role of … cultural similarity. The earnings gap relative to West German natives narrowed over time for all immigrants. These findings are …

Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus … employment gaps between immigrant and native men decline after arrival, they remain large for most cohorts; the average gap after … systematic trend. Still, economic conditions do matter, and employment collapsed in some cohorts after structural shocks hit the …

state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects … immigration as well as state minimum wages, and to implementing a difference-in-differences strategy comparing U.S. States where …We exploit the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across US States created by the coexistence of federal and …

performance and welfare. Lower immigration leads to higher wages for low-skilled workers and higher consumer prices. Importantly …We document a steady decline in low-skilled immigration that began with the onset of the Great Recession in 2007, which … estimate a stochastic growth model with endogenous immigration and training to account for these facts and study macroeconomic …

study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and … exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental variable estimation. In our sample of recent immigrants, linear … endogeneity of naturalization most coefficients decline in magnitude and lose statistical significance: male immigrants' labor …

We study how job mobility, firms, and firm-ladder climbing can shape immigrants’ labor market success. Our context is … the mass migration of former Soviet Union Jews to Israel during the 1990s. Once in Israel, these immigrants faced none of … undistorted immigrants’ job mobility and resulting unconstrained assimilation. Rich administrative data allows us to follow …

This paper investigates the relationship between immigration and inequality in the UK over the past forty years. This … the impact immigration had on wage inequality in the UK through two channels: the first is the effect on the earnings … the two groups. We find inequality among immigrants to be consistently higher than inequality among natives. We also …

During the Great Recession, immigrants reacted to the drop in labour demand in Spain through internal migration or … leaving the country. Consequently, provinces lost 13.5% of their immigrants or - 3% of the total labour supply, on average … employment and wage of natives. I use a modified shift-share instrument based on past settlements to claim causality. Employment …