questioned whether unfavorable trends in African-American wages and employment outcomes are tied to Mexican immigration. This … source of depression of wages for African-Americans stems not just from immigration. In fact, in some ways, occupation … socioeconomic mobility for many-wages of African-American workers which have trended upward in the 1960s and 1970s started stalling …

departure of wages and employment of low-skilled workers between Miami and its control after 1979. The result is robust to …

The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and … accounting for human capital endowments. Our analysis confirms the previous finding of limited effect of immigration on … unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human …

research on immigration, political behaviour and collective action. …

This paper investigates how recent immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008 have affected wages in Switzerland. This … on domestic wages using the actual immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008. For the long run, the simulations produce some … immigration inflows, we follow the "structural skill-cell approach" as for example employed by Borjas (2003) and Ottaviano and …

In this paper, we study gains and losses that accrue to natives because of immigration. The gain on the aggregated … level is called the ?immigration surplus?, which can be seen as analogous to a consumer surplus. We derive changes in the … the immigration surplus. …