labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more …In this chapter, we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and … our analysis of the local effects of immigration, and we describe several applications. We then discuss the empirical …

note, I first replicate Hunt and Gauthier-Loiselle (2010) which estimates the effects of immigration on innovation via …A common approach to identifying the causal impact of immigration on out-comes involves using a "shift-share" or Bartik … instrument exploiting country-specific immigration inflows (shifts) and location specific prior shares for the same countries …

on a new and larger sample of about 2,600 adults from the German Socioeconomic Panel-Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS). We find …