A series of recent influential papers has emphasized that in order to identify the wage effects of immigration one …. Hence if we look at the employment (rather than wage) response to immigration by state, we can still estimate the … characteristics of Mexican migrants to the US to predict immigration by skill level in California. Looking at immigraton between 1960 …

employment (rather than wage) response by skill to immigration in a state, I can estimate the substitutability … of the Mexican Population to predict immigration by skill level within California. Looking at immigration to California …, in turn, explains the counter-intuitive fact that there is a zero correlation between immigration and wage and employment …

of less educated immigrants would reduce wages paid to comparably-educated native-born workers if the two groups are … educated foreign and native-born workers specialize in performing different tasks, immigration will cause natives to reallocate … tasks. Immigration induces natives to specialize accordingly. Simulations show that this increased specialization might …

recent decades. If immigration harms the labor opportunities of natives, especially the least skilled ones, in the form of … where these effects should have been stronger. By analyzing the behavior of population, employment and wages of U.S. natives … imperfectly substitutable in production and we exploit the differences in immigration across these groups to infer their impact on …

wages for a doubling of the immigrants' share. These results are robust to the use of two alternative IV strategies based on …

born, the male-female gender gaps in income and wages have increased with 35 and 10 percentage points, respectively. In … line with a collective labor supply model, the magnitude of these effects depends on relative incomes or wages within the …