association of firm-worker matches known as positive assortative matching (PAM). Immigration in a local labor market, by …

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 …

Do labor market concerns affect support for immigration? Using a large, representative sample of the US population, we … first elicit beliefs about the labor market impact of immigration. To generate exogenous variation in beliefs, we then … provide respondents in the treatment group with research evidence showing no adverse labor market impacts of immigration …

immigration literature. Empirical quantifications for the U.S. reveal that the indirect fiscal benefit of one low … has previously been documented. This challenges the perception of low-skilled immigration as a fiscal burden …

This paper investigates the relationship between immigration and inequality in the UK over the past forty years. This … the impact immigration had on wage inequality in the UK through two channels: the first is the effect on the earnings … examine the impact of immigration on the fiscal budget, and the potentially unequal impact of the ensuing tax implications on …

Immigration is one of the most divisive political issues in many countries today. Competing narratives, circulated via …

. We analyze Polish immigration in the context of the 2004 enlargement of the European Union and find a positive and … particularly interesting as Polish immigration to Germany was not based on selection by qualification in our period of analysis …

migrants are perfect substitutes within a firm. In this setting, a skilled labor supply shock due to immigration has two …In this paper, we provide new explanations for the puzzling findings in the literature that migrants do not decrease … natives’ wages, and that skilled immigration can actually increase them. We develop a model with regional labor markets and …