Neither public opinion nor evidence-based research supports the claim of some politicians and the media that immigrants take the jobs of native-born workers. Public opinion polls in six migrant-destination countries after the 2008-2009 recession show that most people believe that immigrants fill...

Die bevorstehende Osterweiterung der Europäischen Union (EU) stellt für die beitretenden Staaten einen bedeutenden Schritt ihrer Wiedereingliederung in das ökonomische Netzwerk Europas dar. Ein wesentliches Kriterium bei der Beurteilung des Erfolgs der Osterweiterung ist die Auswirkung des...

Considering the recent debates regarding Brexit and the potential negative effects of immigrants on Italian labor market, the main aim of this paper is to assess the impact of immigrants from Italy on the labor market of this country using econometric techniques. Based on these results, one...

We exploit the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across US States created by the coexistence of federal and state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects of immigration on labor market outcomes of native...