we synthesized the conclusions of this empirical literature by means of meta-analyses of the impact of immigration on … wages and employment of native-born workers. While we have shown that the labour market impacts in terms of wages and … market outcomes: wages, employment, unemployment and labour force participation. We compare 45 primary studies published …

outcomes. Specifically, we attempt to distinguish between the short-run and long-run effects of immigrants on natives? wages … for native workers, we expect that the impact of immigration will be largest immediately upon the immigrants? arrival, and … substitutes for natives because of their lack of local human capital, the initial effect of immigration is small, and the effect …

In this paper, we study gains and losses that accrue to natives because of immigration. The gain on the aggregated … level is called the ?immigration surplus?, which can be seen as analogous to a consumer surplus. We derive changes in the … the immigration surplus. …

shocks, and, hence, the labor market effects of immigration. We employ a wage-setting approach which assumes that wages …We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply …

Using census data for 1996, 2001 and 2007 we study the labor market effect of immigration to South Africa. The paper …, we estimate that increased immigration has a negative and significant effect on natives' employment rates - and that this … robust to using an instrumental variable estimation strategy. At the national level, we find that increased immigration has a …

underline the importance of more open immigration policies targeting high-skilled immigrants. The current policy not only cannot …

the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic … consequences of immigration for a host country?s labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated …

anecdotal evidence, we found little hard evidence that the inflow of accession migrants contributed to a fall in wages or a rise …

study estimates the effects of the minimum wage on both wages and employment using panel data techniques and Brazilian … used. Robust results indicate that an increase in the minimum wage strongly compresses the wages distribution with …

This paper puts together evidence for the wages, employment and price effects of the minimum wage. This overall picture …