Does interacting product and labor market regulation alter the impact of immigration on wages of competing native … workers? Focusing on the large, sudden and unanticipated wave of migration from East to West Germany after German … reunification and allowing for endogenous immigration, we compare native wage reactions across different segments of the West German …

Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus …

attrition and missing wages are also addressed. Using German household panel surveys from 1984 to 2014 and home country …

the German labor market since EU enlargement. Unlike other EU countries, Germany has not immediately opened up its labor … immigrants from outside of Europe for low-skilled jobs instead of competing with German natives. While Germany needs high … underline the importance of more open immigration policies targeting high-skilled immigrants. The current policy not only cannot …

In this paper we present important correlations between immigration and labor market outcomes of native workers in the … zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …

research on immigration, political behaviour and collective action. …

expansion of the European Union - led to a fall in wages or employment, or a rise in unemployment in the UK between 2004 and … 2006. This immigration shock was unexpectedly larger and faster - as well as more concentrated into areas and occupations … - than anticipated, seemingly more akin to an exogenous supply shock than most immigration shocks. Exploiting rich but …

Germany from 1997-2016, we identify mass layoffs and estimate the trajectory of earnings and employment of observationally …-employment probabilities and post-layoff wages and is not driven by selective return migration. Key mechanisms include sorting into lower …

positive outside it. Job-specific estimates of this kind are useful alongside more generalized evaluations of immigration … because immigration policy often regulates access to specific occupations. …

appears negative. These contradictory findings suggest that the impact of immigration on native wages varies significantly … from the O*NET skill taxonomy, we create more homogeneous skill groups, enabling a precise analysis of immigration's impact … between native wages and immigrant shares. In contrast, when groups are based on education-experience, the relationship …