, arguing that immigration harms less educated American workers in particular and all U.S.-born workers in general. Because U … previous literature, overall immigration generates a large positive effect on the average wages of U.S.-born workers. We show … evidence of this positive effect by estimating the impact of immigration on both average wages and housing values across U …

native-born workers specialize in performing complementary tasks, immigration will cause natives to reallocate their task … cleaning, cooking, and building. Immigration causes natives -- who have a better understanding of local networks, rules …. Simulations show that this increased specialization mitigated negative wage consequences of immigration for less-educated native …

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 … 2004 immigration did not produce a negative migratory response from natives. To the contrary, as immigrants were imperfect …

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 …

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 estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national U.S. level. Following Borjas … account for the short run and long run adjustment of capital in response to immigration. Using our estimates and Census data … we find that immigration (1990-2006) had small negative effects in the short run on native workers with no high school …

We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …

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 …