An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … Population Survey extracts in 1980, specific to Miami but unrelated to the Boatlift. We also show that conflicting findings on … the labor-market effects of other important refugee waves can be produced by spurious correlation between the instrument …

successful in reducing welfare use in general and the immigrant-native welfare gap in particular. -- welfare ; immigration … ; labor market behavior ; transition ; state dependence …

Labor migration is a defining attribute of today's global economy, as more people live outside their country of birth … opportunity to investigate the movement of a highly skilled labor force (Kahn, 2000). Therefore, the current study will … investigate 21st century labor migration patterns and their relationship to productivity in the context of arguably the largest …

We investigate whether the dependence of immigrants on welfare benefits leads to opposition to further immigration by … natives lead to less favourable attitudes of natives towards immigration. Interestingly, we do not find similar stylised facts … for immigrants' attitudes towards immigration. …

enlarged-EU migrants on the native population, the paper concludes with a discussion on lessons learned. …

We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …

We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …

This paper investigates the dynamics of wage adjustment to an exogenous increase in labor supply by exploiting the …

Immigrants can mix with the population of a receiving country in various ways. We consider demographic mixing by which … other is not – cross-parenting as we term it. We consider a hypothetical country with an initial stable population and … introduce immigration. The results of cross-parenting are taken into account by identifying three separate populations within …