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 …

Immigration is often viewed as a proximate cause of the rising wage gap between high- and low-skilled workers … involved. This paper offers an overview and synthesis of existing knowledge on the relationship between immigration and … in the tails of the skill distribution and higher residual inequality among immigrants than natives. Even so, immigration …

associated with lower employment rates among natives and earlier immigrants, but with relatively small effects on the relative … wage structure. The estimates imply that immigrant arrivals between 1985 and 1990 depressed the employment rate of low …

some displacement out of low-wage immigrant-intensive industries. We find little effect of immigration on the employment …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 …

This paper reviews the recent evidence on U.S. immigration, focusing on two key questions: (1) Does immigration reduce … the labor market opportunities of less-skilled natives? (2) Have immigrants who arrived after the 1965 Immigration Reform … from immigration and the rise of other education-related wage gaps. Overall, evidence that immigrants have harmed the …