Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers … countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and only modest effects on wage differentials between more and less … educated immigrant and native workers. Native workers' wages have been insulated by differences in skills, adjustments in local …

low skillednatives. Secondly, the effect of an immigration flow by 5% of the total labourforce on native earnings … isexamined along three scenarios using a general equilibrium model. It is foundthat immigration has a largenegative effect on the … wages of less skilled natives and a small positive effecton the wages of high skilledworkers as new immigrants are less …

wages. We use Belgian linked panel data and rely on the methodology from Hellerstein et al. (1999) to estimate ORU (over …

wages. We use Belgian linked panel data and rely on the methodology from Hellerstein et al. (1999) to estimate ORU (over …

This paper asks whether immigration to Britain has had any impact on average wages. There seems to be a broad consensus … immigration in Britain, the immigrant-native ratio has a significant, small, negative impact on average wages. Closer examination … anecdote, but does not seem to have been recorded previously in the empirical literature. -- immigration ; occupation ; wages …