We investigate the effects of US immigration on native workers in a search and matching environment that allows for … unskilled immigration benefits the low-skilled native workers and hurts the high-skilled. On the other hand, new skilled … immigration benefits both skilled and unskilled natives. Moreover, when we simulate the effects of the actual US immigration …

decisions. To assess the impact of immigration, I compare simulated earnings in the presence of immigration with a series of … counterfactual experiments. My findings suggest that immigration has a small negative direct effect on earnings, but a positive and … 60% of the variations in earnings caused by immigration. …

We analyze the impact of the skill-biased immigration influx that took place during the years 2000-2009 in the United … that although the skill-biased immigration raised the overall net income to natives, it may have had distributional effects …

it. We apply a discrete-time Leslie-type model which allows for immigration and the study of its long-run effects. We …

We study the effect of electoral systems on openness to immigration. According to the literature, in our model … transfers, whereas the opposite occurs under proportional representation. In both systems policymakers can use immigration to … systems generate more openness to immigration. We find support for this result on a cross-section of 34 OECD countries. In …

counties that arose due to immigration during the 19th century had a significant positive effect on US counties' economic …

This thesis consists of three essays on the economic and cultural integration of migrants in Switzerland, reverse … behaviours and attitudes of migrants are diverging from or converging with those of natives. Chapter 2 examines the causes of … differences preventing the successful integration of migrants or does the root of integration failures lie in unequal economic …

and the unemployment rate, and permanent immigration in France over the period 1994-2008. It uses a new database where … immigration is measured by the flow of issuing residence permits of more than one year to foreigners. The flow is distinguished by … autoregression models (VAR) indicates that immigration increases GDP per capita, in particular, for female immigration and family …

This paper investigates the link between immigration and property prices in England and Wales. Evidence from fixed … effects and shift-share-based instrumental variable regressions suggests that an increase in the regional share of migrants (a … regions as immigration increases and (d) the number of persons per room increases with the share of immigrants. …