We develop a search-matching model with rural-urban migration and an explicit land market. Wages, job creation, urban … effect on urban wages, which reduces job creation and thus migration. When these two effects are combined with search …

We develop a search-matching model with rural-urban migration and an explicit land market. Wages, job creation, urban … effect on urban wages, which reduces job creation and thus migration. When these two effects are combined with search …

from distributional (relative) wage consequences of immigration but exacerbate the impacts on average wages in the economy …

effects on native unskilled wages, employment and occupational mobility. …

This paper estimates the effect of immigration on native wages at the national level taking into account the endogenous …

immigrants, especially illegal ones, have a worse outside option than natives their wages are lower. Hence their presence reduces …

, unemployment rates, and wages in fixed-effects regressions which effectively use changes in these indicators over time within …

In this paper we document a strong positive correlation of immigration flows with changes in average wages and average … compatible with a causal interpretation from immigration to wages and rents of natives. Separating the effects of immigrants on … natives of different schooling levels we find positive effects on the wages and rents of highly educated and small effects on …

. Despite the massive size of the migrant influx, no adverse effects on the average wages of men or women or on total employment … in the informal sector, whereas both wage employment and wages of men in the formal sector increase. Increases in prices …