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 …

We study the effects of technological change on immigration flows as well as the labor market outcomes of migrants … native population nor immigration flows. In the case of AI, we determine an increase in the wage gap as well as the …

An important goal of immigration policy is facilitating the entry and supply of workers whose skills are scarce in … whether and how the response of immigrants to skill demand changed when Switzerland abolished immigration restrictions for …

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 …

We document that immigration to U.S. states has increased the mass of workers at the lower range of the skill … distribution. We use this change in skill distribution of workers to analyze the effect of immigration on wages. Our model allows … firms to endogenously respond to the immigration-induced changes in skill distribution in terms of their decisions (i) to …