provides a valid approximation of observed wages and matching patterns for a large part of the data. For low-type workers …, however, wages are decreasing in the type of the firm a worker is matched with. This prediction of theoretical sorting models …

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 …

domestic firms is relevant also at a more aggregate level to explain cross-sectional differences in wages among workers and … spatial differences in average wages across regions within a country. …

manufacturing. Earnings losses are larger for individuals with low initial wages, low initial tenure, and low attachment to the …