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 …

high school degree). A precise assessment of the average and relative effects of immigrants on U.S. wages, however, needs … adjustment of physical capital induced by immigration, the conventional finding of immigration’s impact on native wages is turned … on its head: overall immigration over the 1980- 2000 period significantly increased the average wages of U …

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

period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …

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

period 1987- 2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …

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

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 …