restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test … prioritizing residents over refugees. Consistent with an effect of outside options on wages, removing 10% of jobs reduces refugees …' hourly wages by 2.8% and increases the wage gap to similar host-country citizens in similar jobs by 2.2%. Furthermore, we …

EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May …

affects labor markets in sending countries, particularly the wages of workers who do not emigrate. Most studies find that … emigration increases wages in the sending country but only for non-emigrants with substitutable skills similar to those of … country loses many highly educated workers, the economy can become less productive altogether, leading to lower wages for …

This paper studies the relationship between immigration and offshoring by examining whether an influx of foreign … that immigration and offshoring are substitutes has important policy implications, since restrictions on one may encourage …

to estimate how changes in the supply of immigrant workers affected natives' wages in the US. We begin by extending the … passes validity tests and has reasonably strong power. Second, we provide estimates of the impact of immigration on the … of natives in response to immigrants. Using these estimates, we calculate that immigration, thanks to native …

Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers … countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and only modest effects on wage differentials between more and less … educated immigrant and native workers. Native workers' wages have been insulated by differences in skills, adjustments in local …

This paper asks whether immigration to Britain has had any impact on average wages. There seems to be a broad consensus … immigration in Britain, the immigrant-native ratio has a significant, small, negative impact on average wages. Closer examination … anecdote, but does not seem to have been recorded previously in the empirical literature. -- immigration ; occupation ; wages …

where they can be more productive. Yet immigration laws severely constrain such movement. …