In this paper we document a strong positive correlation of immigration flows with changes in average wages and average … compatible with a causal interpretation from immigration to wages and rents of natives. Separating the effects of immigrants on … useful tool to evaluate the impacts of alternative immigration scenarios on U.S. wages and rents. …

In this paper we construct a simple model of the effects of immigration on the labour market outcomes of natives. In … this model, skilled and unskilled labour are substitutes, immigrants are complementary to the former, and wages are …, there are sufficient conditions for immigration to raise total employment. We then estimate the effects of immigration on …

period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … as `flexible' as the UK labour market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration. …

Immigration to the UK, particularly among more educated workers, has risen appreciably over the past 30 years and as … such has raised labor supply. However studies of the impact of immigration have failed to find any significant effect on … the wages of native-born workers in the UK. This is potentially puzzling since there is evidence that changes in the …

who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a temporary work visa have a large advantage over natives in wages …

two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to … indeed more religious than the populations in the receiving countries, both in Europe and in the United States; and (b) while … in the United States the religiosity of immigrants serves as a bridge between the immigrants and the local population, in …

northwestern parts. In the advanced parts of India and China, grain wages were comparable to those in northwestern Europe, but … wages of northwestern Europe were not simply a monetary phenomenon, but reflected high productivity in the tradable sector … 1500 and 1800 look similar to the stagnating southern, central and eastern parts of Europe rather than the developing …

exaggerated in recent work. Europe has neither greater nominal wage flexibility nor more rigid real wages than the United States … indices for Japan and Europe. If anything, real wages in Europe and Japan were too flexible rather than too rigid, in the …This paper studies the dynamic behaviour of changes in productivity, wages, and prices. Results are based on a new data …

link the population of a country to a host of economic and social phenomena. Using both graphical and statistical …

level. We put forward an identification strategy that relies on the fact that variation of wages induces variation in …