immigrants, especially illegal ones, have a worse outside option than natives their wages are lower. Hence their presence reduces …

existing method may yield positive or negative externalities even if wages reflect marginal social products. We propose an …

result, it yields positive externalities even when wages equal marginal social products. We propose an approach that …

effects on native unskilled wages, employment and occupational mobility. …

Recent influential empirical work has emphasized the negative impact immigrants have on the wages of US-born workers … relative skill levels of immigrants on the relative wages of US workers. However, contrary to the findings of previous … literature, overall immigration generates a large positive effect on the average wages of US-born workers. We show evidence of …

This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national U.S. level. Following Borjas … evaluate the competition as well as cross-skill complementary effects of immigrants on wages. We also emphasize the importance … degree (-0.7%) and on average wages (-0.4%) while it had small positive effects on nativeworkers with no high school degree …

In this paper we document a strong positive correlation of immigration flows with changes in average wages and average … compatible with a causal interpretation from immigration to wages and rents of natives. Separating the effects of immigrants on … natives of different schooling levels we find positive effects on the wages and rents of highly educated and small effects on …

Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers … countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and only modest effects on wage differentials between more and less … educated immigrant and native workers. Native workers’ wages have been insulated by differences in skills, adjustments in local …

Recent influential empirical work has emphasized the negative impact immigrants have on the wages of U.S.-born workers … impact of the relative skill levels of immigrants on the relative wages of U.S. workers. However, contrary to the findings of … previous literature, overall immigration generates a large positive effect on the average wages of U.S.-born workers. We show …

existing method may yield positive or negative externalities even if wages reflect marginal social products. We propose an …