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 …

immigrants from outside of Europe for low-skilled jobs instead of competing with German natives. While Germany needs high … underline the importance of more open immigration policies targeting high-skilled immigrants. The current policy not only cannot …

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 …

) 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 …

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 …

united States religiosity of immigrants serves as a bridge between the immigrants and the local population, in Europe it has …This study reviews and evaluates the intertwined relationship between immigration and religiosity, focusing on the two … sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of …

following arrival, wages of highly skilled immigrants grow at 8% a year. Rising prices of skills, occupational transitions …, accumulated experience in Israel and economy-wide rise in wages account for 3.4, 1.1, 1.5 and 1.4 percent each. In the long run …, the average wages of immigrants approach but do not converge to the wages of comparable natives. The main reason for that …

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. …

Labor Force Survey. Wages in Israel in each period are the result of a human capital investment decision. In this framework …

The 2004 and 2007 EU enlargement has led to a significant increase in the immigration flow to Spain. Individuals from … the new-EU-12 countries accounted for no more than 10% of the whole Spanish immigrant population in 2004, but by 2008 they … immigration from new-EU-12 countries. Second, the lack of employment assimilation in terms of job quality for workers from the new …