An important goal of immigration policy is facilitating the entry and supply of workers whose skills are scarce in … demand for highly skilled workers at the expense of lower skill groups throughout the developed world. In this paper, we show … whether and how the response of immigrants to skill demand changed when Switzerland abolished immigration restrictions for …

An important goal of immigration policy is facilitating the entry and supply of workers whose skills are scarce in … demand for highly skilled workers at the expense of lower skill groups throughout the developed world. In this paper, we show … whether and how the response of immigrants to skill demand changed when Switzerland abolished immigration restrictions for …

An important goal of immigration policy is to facilitate the entry of foreignborn workers whose skills are in short …

demand and technology, production expansion, and specialization of native workers as immigration rises. …

assimilation for migrants in Germany by estimating fixed effects regressions for migrants and Germans separately. Based on the … migrants compared to native Germans by generating predictions and by averaging them by year. This approach allows to decompose … adjustment due to unobserved time-varying factors and age. If all migrants are tarred with the same brush (by pooling them into …

Previous studies tend to find that immigration has a weak negative effect on the employment and earnings of native …-born workers. These studies generally overlook the effect of immigration on an important sector of the labor force, the self … examine the relationship between black self-employment and immigration in both 1980 and 1990. To control for permanent …