We analyze the employment effects of immigration within a model that accounts for several stylized facts of the German … wages results from employment shifts from low-wage to high-wage sectors. Employment effects of immigration are opposite to … those of a rise in the minimum wage. For plausible parameter values, immigration raises employment of the home labor force …

We study the effects of high skilled immigration on employment and net income in the receiving economy where the market … empirical fact that high and low skilled workers are close albeit imperfect substitutes, we show that high skilled immigration … improvement can be achieved if the unemployment benifit level remains unaffected by high skilled immigration whereas an overall …

effects of integration but more pronounced labour market effects from immigration. …