whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational …

wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the … likely to generate upward biases in these estimates too. Native wage effects disappear and less-skilled employment of …

(positive selection) and more-educated migrants are more likely to settle in destination countries with high rewards to skill … simple model of income maximization can account for both phenomena. Results on selection show that migrants for a source …-destination pair are more educated relative to non-migrants the larger is the absolute skill-related difference in earnings between the …

effects on native unskilled wages, employment and occupational mobility …

migrants and returnees. We construct measures of selection across skill groups and estimate the average and the skills …-specific premium for migration and return for three typical destinations of Romanian migrants after 1990. We find evidence for a … sorting of migrants consistent with skill compensation in destination countries. The premium to return migration increases …

employment, average hours worked, physical capital accumulation and, most importantly, total factor productivity and its skill … existence of communities of immigrants before 1960, as instruments. We find no evidence that immigrants crowded-out employment …-biased technology as the theory of directed technologial change would predict. Combining these effects, an increase in employment in a …

Employment rates in the United States fell dramatically between February 2020 and April 2020 as the repercussions of … document that the employment decline was particularly severe for immigrants. Historically, immigrant men were more likely to be … employed than native men. The COVID-related labor market disruptions eliminated the immigrant employment advantage. By April …