An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … composition in subsamples of the Current Population Survey extracts. This compositional change is specific to Miami, unrelated to … consensus that the impact of immigration on average native-born workers is small, and fails to substantiate claims of large …

. However, the impact of immigration on natives in self-employment has not been examined, despite the over-representation of … of plausible parameter values, the model predicts small negative effects of immigration on native self-employment rates … and earnings. Using 1980 and 1990 Census microdata, we then examine the relationship between changes in immigration and …

. Second, immigration had a dynamic effect on partner search costs. Its short-run effect was to fragment the marriage market … marriage and later marriage in the 1890s and 1900s. As immigration declined, the long-run effect was for immigrants and their … immigration primarily affected the whites' marriage market which is why the changes in marital behavior are much more pronounced …

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

consequences of immigration vary with institutions that affect labor market flexibility. Reduced flexibility may protect natives … increase the negative impact of immigration on equilibrium employment. In models without interactions, OLS estimates for a … panel of European countries in the 1980s and 1990s show small, mostly negative immigration effects. To reduce bias from the …

imports in the U.S. economy to these trends. Our empirical evidence indicates that both trade and immigration augmented the … immigration increased the effective supply of high school dropouts by 28 percent for men and 31 percent for women. We estimate … school dropouts between 1980 and 1988 can be attributed to the trade and immigration flows. In addition, our analysis …

How does immigration affect labor market opportunities in a receiving country? This paper contributes to the voluminous … use the Help-Wanted Index (HWI) to document how immigration changes the number of job vacancies in the affected labor … in the HWI with immigration across metropolitan areas. These correlations consistently indicate that more immigration is …

In this paper, we document the importance of high-skilled immigration for U.S. employment in STEM fields. To begin, we …

liberalization, partially driven by the movement of workers to informal firms. Despite large increases in aggregate income, trade … liberalization is associated with a reduction in monthly income, but the results are imprecise. Our results also suggest that a …