wage of French women, but led to a sizable decline in their employment rate. In contrast, immigration had little impact on …, mechanically changing the average native wage in affected markets and biasing the estimated wage impact of immigration. We document … the employment rate of men, but led to a sizable drop in the male wage. We show that the near-zero correlation between …

The debate over the wage effects of immigration for native workers is an old one. One side of the debate claims that … immigration has little if any negative impact on wages among natives, whereas others suggest that immigration has large, negative … of the US economy and estimates a wage elasticity of -0.4 with respect to immigration. In this paper, we replicate and …