natives have expressed concern that immigrants fail to integrate into US society and lower wages for existing workers. This …, assimilation of immigrants into US economy and society, and the effect of immigration on the labor market …

understate the actual rate of assimilation because of the sharp decline in the relative wages of unskilled U.S. workers. We also …

similar effects on wages. Unlike trade, however, immigration can alter the composition of the local population, imposing …Economists are often puzzled by the stronger public opposition to immigration than trade, since the two policies have … toward immigration. We use data for 21 countries in the 2002 European Social Survey, which included a series of questions on …

Whether immigrants advance in labor markets relative to natives is a fundamental question in immigration economics. It … is difficult to answer this question for the Age of Mass Migration, when US immigration was at its peak. New datasets of …

workers with no schooling degree in California were foreign-born in 2004. If immigration harms the labor opportunities of … imperfectly substitutable in production and we exploit differences in immigration across these groups to infer their impact on US … between 1960 and 2004 immigration did not produce a negative migratory response from natives. To the contrary, as immigrants …

Immigration is not evenly balanced across groups of workers that have the same education but differ in their work … market impact of immigration by exploiting this variation in supply shifts across education-experience groups. I assume that … substitutes. The analysis indicates that immigration lowers the wage of competing workers: a 10 percent increase in supply reduces …

outcomes of the four race/sex groups that we consider. Our estimates of the effect of immigration on the wages of less …This paper examines the effects of immigration on the labor market outcomes of less-skilled natives. Working from a … simple model of a local labor market, we show that the effects of immigration can be estimated from the correlations between …

arrivals, can account for only a small portion of it. The upturn appears to have been caused in part by a shift in immigration … that, while average entry wages fell again after 2000, correcting for simple changes in the composition of new immigrants …, the unexplained rise in entry wages has persisted …