We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas … assess whether the average wages of natives across skill cells is affected by the share of immigrants across cells. When the … suggest that care should be exercised when applying this method as inaccurate impressions of the impact of immigration on …

This paper examines the employment effects of a large burst of immigration – the politically-driven exodus of ethnic … terms of covariate distributions of the treatment and comparison groups – using propensity score matching.We find a positive … repatriates increases the unemployment rate of natives by 0.4 percentage points. When the analysis is done according to skill …

-educated U.S. workers fell. Some believe that recent shifts in immigration may be partly responsible for the bad fortunes of … skilled natives. OLS estimates using Census data are consistent with this as they show that wages and employment of natives … and earlier Latin Americans are positively related to recent Latin American immigration. However, these estimates are …

STEM flows. We find that the Immigration Act changed natives' skill investment and utilization in three ways: (1) it pushed …This paper examines effects of the U.S. Immigration Act of 1990 on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and … for natives. We examine effects of the policy on STEM degree completion, STEM occupational choice, and employment rates …

through immigration increases the aggregate unemployment rate by less than 0.1 percentage points and reduces average wages by …

its severe dual labor market, and an unprecedented immigration boom, Spain presents a quite unique experience to analyze …

UK population growth over the last thirty-five years has been remarkably low in comparison with other countries; the … an influx of migrants from eight East European (A8) countries. There appears to be consistent evidence from the Worker … Registration Scheme and National Insurance Number applications that approximately 500,000 migrants from the A8 countries had come …

(vertical and horizontal) between natives and immigrants in EU countries. Using microdata from the 2007 wave of the Adult … type of skill mismatch between natives and immigrants. Next, Yun's decomposition method is used to identify the relative … are more likely to be skill mismatched than natives, being this difference much larger for vertical mismatch. In this case …

of immigrants and natives drawn in 2005 to assess the occupational attainment of immigrants in Ireland relative to …Ireland has experienced a remarkable change in its migratory patterns in recent years and has moved from experiencing … natives. It is found that immigrants, on average, are less likely to be in high-level occupations controlling for factors such …

Much research has been conducted on immigration into Ireland in recent years using data from the Quarterly National … Household Survey (QNHS), the official source for labour market data in Ireland. As it is known that the QNHS undercounts … immigrants in Ireland, a concern exists over whether the profile of immigrants being provided is accurate. For example, QNHS …