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

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 …

The theory of factor demand has important implications for the study of the impact of immigration on wages. This paper … theory can be used to check the plausibility of the many contradictory claims that appear throughout the immigration …

The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages … association of firm-worker matches known as positive assortative matching (PAM). Immigration in a local labor market, by …

the economics of immigration. For the US, it has been difficult to answer this question for the period when the … immigration rate was at its historical peak, between the 1840s and 1920s. We develop new datasets of linked census records for …

This paper asks the following question: what was the effect of surging immigration on average and individual wages of U … impact of immigrants on wages of U.S.-born workers can be evaluated only by accounting carefully for labor market and capital … most of the wage effects of immigration accrue to native workers within a decade. These two facts imply a positive and …

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

The NEER Immigration, Trade, and Labor Markets Data Files were developed from public data sources to facilitate … industry-based and area-based research on the effects of international trade and immigration on labor markets in the United …

In this paper, we simulate the long-run effects of migrant flows on wages of high-skilled and low-skilled non … of emigration as well as immigration. We focus on Europe and compare the outcomes for large Western European countries … 2000. We find that all European countries experienced a decrease in their average wages and a worsening of their wage …

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 …