factors in which institutions affect market integration more than market integration affects institutions. It was … institutional improvements that were crucial to market integration, rather than just declining transport costs, which increased city … integration. This created a much larger impact on city growth compared to the institutional impact independent from the market …

Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus …, we study their labor market integration over the last 50 years and highlight differences to the US case. Although the … employment gaps between immigrant and native men decline after arrival, they remain large for most cohorts; the average gap after …

both explain important shares of the initial immigrant-native wage gap and subsequent convergence dynamics. Moreover … gap when accounting for non-wage amenities, which exacerbates immigrant-native disparities based on pay alone. …

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 …

This paper explores the impact of undocumented as opposed to documented immigration in a model featuring search … power. A rise in the share of immigrant workers leads to the creation of additional jobs, but also more job competition. The … job creation effect is large for undocumented, while small and potentially negative for documented immigration. Model …

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 … performance and welfare. Lower immigration leads to higher wages for low-skilled workers and higher consumer prices. Importantly …

substitutes, increasing immigrant inflows widen the wage gap between them. Using a simple production function framework, we show … that this labor market competition channel can explain about one quarter of the large increase in the average immigrant …