previous literature, overall immigration generates a large positive effect on the average wages of U.S.-born workers. We show … evidence of this positive effect by estimating the impact of immigration on both average wages and housing values across U …Recent influential empirical work has emphasized the negative impact immigrants have on the wages of U.S.-born workers …

This paper asks the following question: what was the effect of surging immigration on average and individual wages of U … impact of immigrants on wages of U.S.-born workers can be evaluated only by accounting carefully for labor market and capital … most of the wage effects of immigration accrue to native workers within a decade. These two facts imply a positive and …

of less-educated immigrants would reduce wages paid to comparably-educated native-born workers if the two groups compete … native-born workers specialize in performing complementary tasks, immigration will cause natives to reallocate their task … cleaning, cooking, and building. Immigration causes natives -- who have a better understanding of local networks, rules …

period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … 'flexible' as the UK labor market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration. …

workers with no schooling degree in California were foreign-born in 2004. If immigration harms the labor opportunities of … imperfectly substitutable in production and we exploit differences in immigration across these groups to infer their impact on US … 2004 immigration did not produce a negative migratory response from natives. To the contrary, as immigrants were imperfect …

In this paper, we simulate the long-run effects of migrant flows on wages of high-skilled and low-skilled non … of emigration as well as immigration. We focus on Europe and compare the outcomes for large Western European countries … 2000. We find that all European countries experienced a decrease in their average wages and a worsening of their wage …

We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …

This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national U.S. level. Following Borjas … evaluate the competition as well as cross-skill complementary effects of immigrants on wages. We also emphasize the importance … account for the short run and long run adjustment of capital in response to immigration. Using our estimates and Census data …

of increased openness on human capital and wages of the sending countries. We find that, for plausible values of the …