-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases … school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents' lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language …

We study the role of institutions in affecting the labor market impacts of immigration using a cross-country meta … immigration from 61 academic studies covering 18 developed countries. The mean and median impact on the relative wage of directly … from distributional (relative) wage consequences of immigration but exacerbate the impacts on average wages in the economy …

-educated foreign and native-born workers specialize in performing different tasks, immigration will cause natives to reallocate their … occupations that require manual and physical labor skills while natives pursue jobs more intensive in communication and language … tasks. Immigration induces natives to specialize accordingly. Simulations show that this increased specialization might …

This paper analyzes the effect of immigration on gender gaps in the labor market. Using an equilibrium structural model … immigration on male and female workers, and the availability of cheaper child care services. Consistent with the literature …

In the past 25 years immigration has re-emerged as a driving force in the size and composition of U.S. cities. This … paper describes the effects of immigration on overall population growth and the skill composition of cities, focusing on the …, these offsetting flows are small, so most cities with higher rates of immigration have experienced overall population growth …

inflows can therefore be seen as a natural experiment of immigration, avoiding the typical endogeneity problem of immigrant …

This paper estimates the effect of immigration on native wages at the national level taking into account the endogenous … estimated OLS wage elasticities to immigration. Sub-sample 2SLS estimates average - 1:2 and are very stable to the use of …

change in Complex/Non Complex task supply from natives and immigrants we find that immigration does not change much the …