recent decades. If immigration harms the labor opportunities of natives, especially the least skilled ones, in the form of … imperfectly substitutable in production and we exploit the differences in immigration across these groups to infer their impact on … natives. We find that in the considered period immigration did not produce significant migratory response or loss of jobs of …

In this paper I share my thoughts on immigration policy. As a social scientist it is appropriate to assess the … consequences, the costs and benefits, of alternative immigration policies. The policies that a country adopts regarding immigration … research. What follows is a non-technical discussion of what I see as some of the key issues regarding immigration policies …

We develop a theoretical framework to analyze the effects of immigration on native job amenities, focusing on work …. Native workers in local labor markets that experienced higher rates of immigration are more likely to work day shifts and …

new insights on potential drivers for the observed non-negative wage effects of immigration. We develop a model of a labor … supply reduces a firm's credibility. By this effect, a higher labor supply - for example caused by immigration - can increase …

In this chapter, we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and … labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more … our analysis of the local effects of immigration, and we describe several applications. We then discuss the empirical …

middle-skill workers have remained subdued. We attribute this outcome to the rise in offshoring and low-skilled immigration … depressed due to the rise in low-skilled immigration. Native workers react to immigration by investing in training. Offshoring … and low-skilled immigration improve aggregate welfare in the U.S. economy, notwithstanding their asymmetric impact on …

anticipates that rich natives oppose low skilled immigration more than poor natives, and that this gap is larger in states with … equally opposed to low skilled immigration, and rich natives are actually less opposed to low skilled immigration in states … with more fiscal exposure than they are elsewhere. We do find that poor natives are more opposed to low skilled immigration …

We estimate the (causal) effects of low skill immigration on the performance of Italian manufacturing firms. We find … low skilled immigration in Italy may have hampered the transition to an economic structure characterized by high …

In recent years, Germany and other European countries face the strongest immigration flow in their history. Experts … arrivals. This paper investigates the impact of low-skilled immigration on a unionized economy with labor market frictions. It … especially examines how immigration affects the technology choice of firms and, thereby, the technological alignment of the host …