the effects of an immigration shock on labor demand by testing a general equilibrium model in which imperfectly …-augmenting effect of an immigration shock is a significant secondary adjustment process that must be considered when assessing the …It is now well known that exogenous immigration shocks tend to have benign effects on native employment outcomes …

We study the labor demand effect of immigration on local labor markets by exploiting the fact that refugees in Germany … are banned from working in the first few months after arrival. This natural experiment allows isolating a pure immigration …: As the number of recently arrived refugees and thus the demand for locally produced goods increases, local employment …

The continuing inflow of hundreds of thousands of refugees into many European countries has ignited much political … the early 1990s; and the exodus of refugees from the former Yugoslavia during the long series of Balkan wars between 1991 … and 2001. We use a common empirical approach, derived from factor demand theory, and publicly available data to measure …

is likely to over-emphasize technology-based adjustments. -- immigration ; endogenous technological change ; firm …

participation and creating worker shortages in high-demand industries. In this context, immigration will help reduce costs in key … inequality. Reforms should therefore modestly increase overall immigration over time, while shifting its composition somewhat …

for native workers, we expect that the impact of immigration will be largest immediately upon the immigrants' arrival, and … may become smaller as the labor market adjusts to the supply shock. Conversely, if immigrants upon arrival are poor … substitutes for natives because of their lack of local human capital, the initial effect of immigration is small, and the effect …

, mechanically changing the average native wage in affected markets and biasing the estimated wage impact of immigration. We document … the foreign-born workforce since 1976. The raw correlations suggest that the immigrant supply shock did not change the … wage of French women, but led to a sizable decline in their employment rate. In contrast, immigration had little impact on …