Many European countries restrict immigration from new EU member countries. The rationale is to avoid adverse wage and …

shocks, and, hence, the labor market effects of immigration. We employ a wage-setting approach which assumes that wages …We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply …

Many European countries restrict immigration from new EU member countries. The rationale is to avoid adverse wage and …

immigrants from outside of Europe for low-skilled jobs instead of competing with German natives. While Germany needs high … underline the importance of more open immigration policies targeting high-skilled immigrants. The current policy not only cannot …

immigration due to its apparently unbearable social and political costs. However these costs are never measured and made … comparable across countries. In this paper we first discuss theoretically how tradable immigration quotas (TIQs) can reveal … of international (e.g., climate change) refugees, and an extension of the US diversity lottery to a larger set of host …

close substitutes to the native West German population, and were very unevenly distributed across labor market segments in …

Using census data for 1996, 2001 and 2007 we study the labor market effect of immigration to South Africa. The paper …, we estimate that increased immigration has a negative and significant effect on natives' employment rates - and that this … robust to using an instrumental variable estimation strategy. At the national level, we find that increased immigration has a …

) specification, we find that a 10% increase in immigration increases native wages by 3%. However, as the number of immigrants and the … understand this asymmetry and the positive impact of immigration on wages, we explore the link between immigration and the …This paper evaluates the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives in France over the period 1962 …

outcomes. Specifically, we attempt to distinguish between the short-run and long-run effects of immigrants on natives? wages … for native workers, we expect that the impact of immigration will be largest immediately upon the immigrants? arrival, and … substitutes for natives because of their lack of local human capital, the initial effect of immigration is small, and the effect …

united States religiosity of immigrants serves as a bridge between the immigrants and the local population, in Europe it has …This study reviews and evaluates the intertwined relationship between immigration and religiosity, focusing on the two … sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of …