In recent years, Germany and other European countries face the strongest immigration flow in their history. Experts … arrivals. This paper investigates the impact of low-skilled immigration on a unionized economy with labor market frictions. It … especially examines how immigration affects the technology choice of firms and, thereby, the technological alignment of the host …

Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on … countries, we document that workers' skills better match their jobs' skill requirements in higher-income countries. To quantify … share of cross-country income differences. Second, however, improved worker-job matching is crucial for unlocking the gains …

family structure also matter. Earnings are found to increase with level of schooling, duration in Israel, pre-immigration …

family structure also matter. Earnings are found to increase with level of schooling, duration in Israel, pre-immigration …

family structure also matter. Earnings are found to increase with level of schooling, duration in Israel, pre-immigration …

This paper re-examines the role of labor-market competition as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration. We claim … are relatively more pro-immigration. This is true for both our new measures of exposure. Second, we show that the … positive effect of education on pro-immigration attitudes is greatly reduced when we control for the degree of communication …

In recent years, Germany and other European countries face the strongest immigration flow in their history. Experts … arrivals. This paper investigates the impact of low-skilled immigration on a unionized economy with labor market frictions. It … especially examines how immigration affects the technology choice of firms and, thereby, the technological alignment of the host …

the recent surge of anti-immigrant sentiments among the low-income segment of the Italian population. …