and measure the local adjustments produced by the immigrant flow. Workers and firms take advantage of the opportunities …

The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a … randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel … survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously authorized to employ more immigrants significantly increase production …

The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a … randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel … survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously authorized to employ more immigrants significantly increase production …

We argue that the arrival of immigrants with low reservation wages can strengthen the monopsony power of firms. Firms … in competitive models, and which are concentrated among low-paying firms. To validate these predictions, we study changes … effects are not inevitable, and may be ameliorated through policies which constrain firms' monopsony power over migrants. …

We study how job mobility, firms, and firm-ladder climbing can shape immigrants’ labor market success. Our context is … immigrants for up to three decades after arrival. Differential sorting across firms and differential pay-setting within firms …

costs. These effects could be beneficial for the firm and increase its productivity and profits. However not all firms use … immigrants. Allowing firms to have differential fixed cost in hiring immigrants we analyze the impact of an increase in local … supply of immigrants on firms' immigrant employment and firm's productivity. Using micro-level data on French firms, we show …