This paper investigates how recent immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008 have affected wages in Switzerland. This … wages using the actual immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008. For the long run, the simulations produce some notable … immigration inflows, we follow the structural skill-cell approach as for example employed by Borjas (2003) and Ottaviano and Peri …

immigration on wages of native groups with similar skills appears rather robust. …-economic phenomenon for many countries. Since the early 1980s, many studies have been undertaken of the impact of immigration on host … labour markets. Borjas (2003) noted that the estimated effect of immigration on the wage of native workers varies widely from …

In this paper, we study gains and losses that accrue to natives because of immigration. The gain on the aggregated … level is called the ?immigration surplus?, which can be seen as analogous to a consumer surplus. We derive changes in the … the immigration surplus. …

occupations. They have impacted positively on the Irish economy in terms of GNP growth. This is because wages grew more slowing in … Ireland than would otherwise have been the case as a result of the labour supply increase brought about by this immigration …

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 …

We extend the Altonji and Card (1991) framework for analysing the impact of immigrants on natives? wages from two to … small effects on natives? wages and no dominant robust patterns of substitution and complementarity. Effects on wages of …

countries and in Spain. It also examines the impact on wages of the legal status. The evidence shows that returns to host …

We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas … assess whether the average wages of natives across skill cells is affected by the share of immigrants across cells. When the … cells are based on education/experience, our results suggest a negative relationship between native wages and immigrant …

We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas … assess whether the average wages of natives across skill cells is affected by the share of immigrants across cells. When the … cells are based on education/experience, our results suggest a negative relationship between native wages and immigrant …