Immigration to the UK has risen over time. Existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native … immigration reduces the wages of immigrants relative to natives. We show this using a pooled time series of British cross …-sectional micro data of observations on male wages and employment from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s. This lack of substitution also …

comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages … productive services firms that pay higher wages. The surprising finding of self-selection of less profitable German business …