natives’ wages, and that skilled immigration can actually increase them. We develop a model with regional labor markets and … migrants are perfect substitutes within a firm. In this setting, a skilled labor supply shock due to immigration has two … wage adjustments. Second, the average native’s wage can be partially sheltered from the negative effect of immigration …

What affects native support for immigration? At a time of rising anti-immigration sentiments, this is a question raised … reduces pro-immigration vote shares in municipalities with a relatively low-skilled native population. The negative response …

Immigration policy can have important net fiscal effects that vary by immigrants’ skill level. But mainstream methods …

We study immigration policy in a small receiving economy under self-selection of migrants. We show that a non …-discriminatory immigration policy choice affects and is affected by the migratory decisions of skilled and unskilled foreign workers. From this … interaction multiple equilibria may arise, which are driven by the natives' expectations on the welfare effects of immigration. In …

This paper explores the effects of high skilled immigration to a host country with unionized low skilled labor and an … unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on …

Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … controls the information related to the immigration stock it could delay the mass entry of immigrants, maintaining the required …

Prior literature on the economic impact of immigration has largely ignored changes to the composition of labor demand ….S. local industries. High-productivity establishments are more likely to enter and less likely to exit in high immigration …