We study how licensing, certification and unionisation affect the wages of natives and migrants and their … certified migrants (10.2 and 6.6 log points), reflecting a more intense screening of migrant than native workers. The … representation of migrants among licensed (but not certified or unionized) workers is 14% lower than that of natives. This implies a …

(positive selection) and more-educated migrants are more likely to settle in destination countries with high rewards to skill … simple model of income maximization can account for both phenomena. Results on selection show that migrants for a source …-destination pair are more educated relative to non-migrants the larger is the absolute skill-related difference in earnings between the …

impact on aggregate UK wages as a result of migrants arriving specifically from EU countries. These findings accord well with …This paper asks whether immigration to Britain has had any impact on average wages. There seems to be a broad consensus … among academics that the share of immigrants in the workforce has little or no effect on native wages. These studies …

This paper theoretically investigates how an increase in the supply of homogenous workers can raise wages, generating … workers' compensation. Moreover, an asymmetric equilibrium exists in which native workers are paid higher wages than …

imply a semi-elasticity of native wages to immigration of −0.7 if the extensive margin of labour supply is ignored (the … zeroes of displaced workers are averaged in), and +0.12 on the wages of those who remain working. The effect on immigrant … wages is unambiguously negative. …

(positive selection) and more-educated migrants are more likely to settle in destination countries with high rewards to skill … simple model of income maximization can account for both phenomena. Results on selection show that migrants for a source …-destination pair are more educated relative to non-migrants the larger is the absolute skill-related difference in earnings between the …