The increasing proportion of immigrants in the population of many countries has raised concerns about the 'absorption … we synthesized the conclusions of this empirical literature by means of meta-analyses of the impact of immigration on …. -- Immigration ; labour market ; factor substitution ; comparative research ; meta-analysis …

Immigration is a phenomenon of growing significance in many countries. Increasing social tensions are leading to … countries has been exceeded and social cohesion threatened. There is also in public discourse a common perception of immigration … immigration on labour market outcomes. We apply meta-analytic techniques to 165 estimates from 9 recent studies for various OECD …

The impact of immigration on native workers is driven by two countervailing forces: the degree of substitutability … suited for understanding the impact of low-skilled immigration. The instrumental variable estimates imply that the elasticity … positive effect on native wages (0.14 percent). The impact of immigration is highly heterogeneous for natives with different …