"This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national U.S. level. Following … account for the short run and long run adjustment of capital in response to immigration. Using our estimates and Census data … we find that immigration (1990-2006) had small negative effects in the short run on native workers with no high school …

This paper asks the following important question: what was the effect of surging immigration on average and individual … of adjustment of physical capital we show that most of the wage effects of immigration accrue to native workers already …-2004 immigration on the average wage of U.S.-born workers overall, both in the short and in the long run. This positive average effect …

Using the large variation in the inflow of immigrants across US states we analyze the impact of immigration on state …