wages of less skilled natives and a small positive effecton the wages of high skilledworkers as new immigrants are less … national survey of the SEO and the Population statistics ofthe CBS. Firstly, the directeffect of immigrants on local labour … low skillednatives. Secondly, the effect of an immigration flow by 5% of the total labourforce on native earnings …

resulting in economic costs, particularly with respect to wages and employment opportunities of the native born. This warrants a …’ of the decline in native-born employment following a 1 percent increase in the number of immigrants is a mere 0 … example, failure to control for endogeneity of immigration itself leads to an underestimate of its employment impact. …

deterioration in the relative wages of unskilled workers.This involves a model of North-Northintegration through either increased …

immigration on wages of native groups with similar skills appears rather robust. …-economic phenomenon for many countries. Since the early 1980s, many studies have been undertaken of the impact of immigration on host … labour markets. Borjas (2003) noted that the estimated effect of immigration on the wage of native workers varies widely from …

. These studies have typically estimated the return to education in terms of changes in wages rather than employment …, effectively ignoring the fact that trade liberalization affects not only wages but also employment opportunities. In this paper we … trade liberalization on the return to education taking into account both changes in wages and employment. The results show …

Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences … between immigrants by source country. Non-western immigrants never reach parity with native Dutch. Even second generation … immigrants never fully catch up. Caribbean immigrants, who share a colonial history with the Dutch, assimilate relatively quick …

-skilled migrants arriving from specific countries in certain years. Utilizing comprehensive tax and population data, we document …

an increase in wages. Offshoring is negatively related to the prevalence of wage markups. This also holds for the …

of immigration? Does social interaction affect this preference or is the immigration preference completely in line with … immigration than the highly educated. Experience with foreigners arising from social contact matters in positively appreciating … immigrants, especially if one meets (non-western) foreigners at work and school. Contact with foreigners while going out …