federal and state regulations to investigate the labor market effects of immigration. We find that the impact of immigration … competition induced by low-skill immigration. The results are robust to instrumenting immigration and state effective minimum …

the dynamics. Microsimulations of synthetic cohorts reveal that many migrants experience unemployment spells, but ten … only increase the unemployment among migrants but also departure from the country. Scenarios also indicate that an increase … Netherlands, which implies that all migrants are (self)-employed at the time of arrival. We find that many migrants leave the …

large for Germany. Differences in past immigration policies between Germany and the Netherlands are likely to be important …

immigrants' human capital, and under-education to favourable selection in immigration. The results show that immigrants have a … effects of under-education, or selection in immigration, are, however, twice as large as the effects of over-education, or … limited international transferability of human capital. Favourable selection in immigration appears to be less important in …

spells of native workers that distinguishes between job-to-job and job-to-unemployment transitions. In general, we do not …

Immigration is a phenomenon of growing significance in many countries. Increasing social tensions are leading to … countries has been exceeded and social cohesion threatened. There is also in public discourse a common perception of immigration … immigration on labour market outcomes. We apply meta-analytic techniques to 165 estimates from 9 recent studies for various OECD …

compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment …We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply …