-generation immigrants and 4 % is Hispanic. Intergenerational improvement is an important source of wage convergence of black immigrants …. Unskilled immigrants who arrive in the USA as children and adolescents experience substantial wage assimilation, especially … Caribbean-English and African-English immigrants. But both unskilled immigrants arriving as adults and all skilled immigrants …

We argue that the arrival of immigrants with low reservation wages can strengthen the monopsony power of firms. Firms …

immigrants are characterized by above average age and by professional occupations. On the other hand, labor markets for young … workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

immigrants are characterized by above average age and by professional occupations. On the other hand, labor markets for young … workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

immigrants are characterized by above average age and by professional occupations. On the other hand, labor markets for young … workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

immigrants are characterized by above average age and by professional occupations. On the other hand, labor markets for young … workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

present strong evidence of a wage penalty to darker skin color among new legal immigrants to the United States. Immigrants … with the lightest skin color earn on average 17 percent higher wages than comparable immigrants with the darkest skin color … spurious consequence of omitted variables bias. Instead, discrimination on the basis of skin color is the most likely …

We aim to identify winners and losers of a sudden inflow of low-skilled immigrants using a general equilibrium search …

We aim to identify winners and losers of a sudden inflow of low-skilled immigrants using a general equilibrium search …

existing low-skilled immigrants to the labor market counteract the effect that is triggered by an increase in low …