worked and tax rates in three sets of economies: the US, Continental Europe and Scandinavia. While tax rates are highest in … Scandinavia, hours worked in Scandinavia are significantly higher than they are in Continental Europe. I argue that differences in …

worked in Europe decline by almost 45% compared to the US over this period. This change is almost an order of magnitude … mid 1970s. Third, the decline in hours worked in Europe is almost entirely accounted for by the fact that Europe develops …

the U.S. and Europe. Another popular view is that these differences are explained by long-standing European "culture," but … the U.S. and Europe. These policies do not seem to have increased employment, but they may have had a more society …

substantial and persistent negative effects of source country fertility on the labor supply of female immigrants except when we …

and older immigrants. I divide new immigrants, older immigrants, and natives into distinct skill groups and focus on skill …-group-specific outcomes within cities. An important first question is" whether inflows of new immigrants lead to outflows of natives or …-city migration flows of natives and older immigrants are largely" unaffected by new immigrant inflows. Inflows of new immigrants are …

In this paper, we document the importance of high-skilled immigration for U.S. employment in STEM fields. To begin, we … previous highs. Next, we consider the importance of immigrant labor to STEM employment. Immigrants account for a … earnings parity with natives; in STEM fields, they achieve parity in less than a decade …

: immigrants took "simple" (manual-routine) type of occupations and natives moved, in response, toward more "complex" (abstract …In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on native jobs in fourteen Western European countries. We test … whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational …

Using the large variation in the inflow of immigrants across US states we analyze the impact of immigration on state … existence of communities of immigrants before 1960, as instruments. We find no evidence that immigrants crowded-out employment … and hours worked by natives. At the same time we find robust evidence that they increased total factor productivity, on …