of emigration as well as immigration. We focus on Europe and compare the outcomes for large Western European countries … inequality because of emigration. Whereas, contrary to the popular belief, immigration had nearly equal but opposite effects … are misplaced; immigration has had a positive average wage effect on native workers. Some concerns should be focused on …

How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation … immigration does not, but rather reduces the share of offshored jobs instead. Moreover, since both phenomena have a positive "cost …

no effect of immigration on native poverty at the national level. At the local level, only considering the most extreme … estimates and only in some localities, we find non-trivial effects of immigration on poverty. In general, however, even the … local effects of immigration bear very little correlation with the observed changes in poverty rates and they explain a …

, assimilation of immigrants into US economy and society, and the effect of immigration on the labor market …

arrivals, can account for only a small portion of it. The upturn appears to have been caused in part by a shift in immigration …

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

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 …

We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and … 'flexible' as the UK labor market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration …

This paper asks the following question: what was the effect of surging immigration on average and individual wages of U … most of the wage effects of immigration accrue to native workers within a decade. These two facts imply a positive and … significant effect of the 1990-2004 immigration on the average wage of U.S.-born workers overall, both in the short run and in the …