Is there a local economic impact of immigration? Immigration pushes up rents and housing values in US destination …. I use instrumental variables based on a shift-share of national levels of immigration into metropolitan areas. An … immigration inflow equal to 1% of a city's population is associated with increases in average rents and housing values of about 1 …

In recent years, Spain has received unprecedented immigration flows. Between 2001 and 2006 the fraction of the … (relative to population), immigration increased the high school dropout population by 24%, while only increasing the number of … large expansion of employment in high immigration regions. Specifically, most industries in high-immigration regions …

immigration studies have overemphasized the role played by differences in the distributions of countries' wages and skills …

of this paper is to examine educational inequalities among immigrants in eight high immigration countries: Australia …, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA. Results indicate that for almost all countries immigrants …

in the population increases patents per capita by 6%. This could be an overestimate of immigration's benefit if immigrant …

about the extent to which the character of immigration varies as well. There is much broader geographic variation in the … immigration, the presence of immigrant children in schools, and the effect of immigration on the age, sex, language, and …