the assumption that wages respond to a change in the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. This allows one to derive the … through immigration increases the aggregate unemployment rate by less than 0.1 percentage points and reduces average wages by … less 0.1 percent. While native workers benefit from increased wages and lower unemployment, foreign workers are adversely …

postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities …

and job mobility. Across education groups permanent shocks to productivity have become more dispersed. Moreover …

Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants … immigrants that tend to marry natives but are instead most likely a result of increasing returns to the characteristics of … immigrants married to natives. Because immigrants married to natives tend to have more schooling, part of the increasing premium …

This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household … immigrants and natives. Individual rates of wage convergence are found to be higher for immigrants who fled warfare zones, belong … contributes substantially to closing the wage gap with natives. The treatment effect is heterogeneous, favoring immigrants who are …

penalty. In addition, few studies have considered overeducation among immigrants. This paper uses panel data analyses to … investigate the match between education and occupation and resulting earnings effects for immigrants from English Speaking, and …) that are crucial in overeducation analysis. First, we find that immigrants have significantly higher incidence rates of …

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …