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 …

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 …

immigration. We document the importance of this selection bias in the French labor market, where women accounted for a rapidly … change the wage of French women, but led to a sizable decline in their employment rate. In contrast, immigration had little … between immigration and female wages arises partly because the native women who left the labor force had relatively low wages …

An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … consensus that the impact of immigration on average native-born workers is small, and fails to substantiate claims of large …

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

We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration … among natives. Next, we unpack the channels behind the political effects of immigration, distinguishing between economic and …

passes validity tests and has reasonably strong power. Second, we provide estimates of the impact of immigration on the … of natives in response to immigrants. Using these estimates, we calculate that immigration, thanks to native …