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

Many European countries restrict immigration from new EU member countries. The rationale is to avoid adverse wage and …

Germany. We examine their effect on today’s productivity, wages, income, rents, education, and population density at the … estimate that exposure to the arrival of refugees raised income per capita by around 13% and hourly wages by around 10% …After the end of World War II in 1945, millions of refugees arrived in what in 1949 became the Federal Republic of …

About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and … Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and … irregular migrants for multiple origin and destination countries. Refugees and female irregular migrants are positively self …

This article studies the impact of immigration restriction policies on technology adoption in sending countries. From … Quota Act, a severely restrictive immigration law. In a difference-in-differences setting, we exploit variation in exposure … districts display a sizable increase in overall population and employment in manufacturing. We provide evidence that “missing …

Brexit due to their network centrality in Europe …

I discuss the econometrics and the economics of past research on the effects of minimum wages on employment in the … answer about the employment effects of minimum wages. My secondary goal is to discuss how we can narrow the range of … some insights from both theory and past evidence that may be informative about the effects of high minimum wages, and try …