An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … of noted refugee waves such as the Mariel Boatlift in Miami and post-Soviet refugees to Israel. We show that conflicting … Population Survey extracts in 1980, specific to Miami but unrelated to the Boatlift. We also show that conflicting findings on …

We apply the Synthetic Control Method to re-examine the effects of the Mariel Boatlift, a large inflow of Cubans into … inference. Using data from the larger and more precise May-ORG Current Population Survey (CPS) one finds no significant … departure of wages and employment of low-skilled workers between Miami and its control after 1979. The result is robust to …

experienced increased wages as a result of receiving amnesty through the 1986 Immigration and Reform Control Act during the 1990s …

UK population growth over the last thirty-five years has been remarkably low in comparison with other countries; the … population grew by just 7% between 1971 and 2004, less than all the other EU15 countries except Germany. The UK population has … likely returned to their country of origin. We argue that, at present, it appears that A8 immigration has tended to increase …

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 …

) specification, we find that a 10% increase in immigration increases native wages by 3%. However, as the number of immigrants and the … understand this asymmetry and the positive impact of immigration on wages, we explore the link between immigration and the …This paper evaluates the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives in France over the period 1962 …

prioritizing residents over refugees. Consistent with an effect of outside options on wages, removing 10% of jobs reduces refugees …Refugees, and immigrants more generally, often do not have access to all jobs in the labor market. We argue that … restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test …

This paper tests whether amnesty, a provision of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), affected the labor … market outcomes of the legalized population. Using the Legalized Population Survey (LPS) and the National Longitudinal Survey … amnesty on the legalized population relative to a comparison group. After the implementation of the amnesty program …

We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …

This paper exploits the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across U.S. States created by the coexistence of … federal and state regulations to investigate the labor market effects of immigration. We find that the impact of immigration … on the wages and employment of native workers within a given state-skill cell is more negative in States with low minimum …