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 …

departure of wages and employment of low-skilled workers between Miami and its control after 1979. The result is robust to …

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 …