We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to inform the potential for immigrant screening policies to … influence the labour market performance of skilled immigrants. Our estimates point to improvements in employment rates and … weekly earnings of male university-educated immigrants in all three countries concomitant with skilled immigration policy …

The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation … implies that the effect of migrant labor supply on native employment is close to zero within this occupation, and may be … positive outside it. Job-specific estimates of this kind are useful alongside more generalized evaluations of immigration …

is reduced and sometimes disappears after correcting for selection into employment. In most cases the remaining …