This paper investigates the degree to which immigration shock to a region propagates through supply chains. Using the … country are affected in terms of their sales, employment, and wages. We also estimate the effect of the shock on … interprovincial trade, focusing on trade volume and network formation. The results point to positive spillover effects of immigration …

This paper exploits a quasi-experiment to shed light on whether the wage penalty experienced by migrants reflects poor … possibility for migrants to undertake an official assessment of their foreign qualifications, and remove the uncertainty … educated abroad. The assessment's effect weakens over time, as employers observe migrants' productivity. The effect of where …

move. European countries have selective policies with regards to the health, education and wealth of migrants, who self …

This paper analyses the effects of immigration on waiting times in the National Health Service (NHS) in England …. Linking administrative records from the Hospital Episode Statistics (2003-2012) with immigration data drawn from the UK Labour … Force Survey, we find that immigration reduced waiting times for outpatient referrals and did not have significant effects …

We analyze the impact of immigration on voting. Using Italian municipality data and IV estimation strategy, we find … that immigration generates a sizable causal increase in votes for the centre-right coalition, which has a political … platform less favorable to immigrants. Additional findings are: big cities behave differently, with no impact of immigration on …

This paper investigates the relationship between immigration and the size of the informal or underground economy. Using … regional variation for the Spanish provinces we find that the massive immigration wave between 2000 and 2009 is highly … substantially reduced the number of illegal workers but did not affect the relationship between immigration and informality. …

We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation …-skilled migrants shows that an increase of 1 percentage point in the share of low-skilled migrants on the population reduces patent …

This paper analyzes the effects of immigration on the education system of the receiving country from a political … key moments of Spain's economy and education system in year 2008, the end of a large episode of immigration. By means of … simulations we evaluate the effects of immigration on the size and quality of Spain's public education. Our main findings are as …