This article examines the causal relations between non-European immigration and the characteristics of the housing … account GDP per capita and the unemployment rate as the main regional economic indicators. We find that immigration has no … significant effect on property prices, but that higher property prices significantly reduce immigration rates. We also find no …

This paper analyzes the role of ethnic communities in shaping the recent immigration boom to Spain. We find that ethnic … communities exerted a strong positive effect on the scale and a strong negative effect on the skill structure of this immigration …

A burgeoning literature has emerged during the last two decades to assess the economic impacts of immigration on host … revisit the impacts of immigration at the regional level. We briefly review analytical approaches for identifying regional … born, particularly of those who are low skilled, following positive net immigration. The employment elasticity is also …

This paper examines the impact of the immigration of foreigners on domestic labour mobility. Since David Card's seminal … the immigration of foreigners replaces domestic mobility from poor to rich regions. We focus on Italy, which is … the variance of the foreigner share across region for identifying the wage and employment effects of immigration, tend to …

How does the US labor market absorb low-skilled immigration? I address this question using the 1995 Mexican Peso Crisis …, an exogenous push factor that raised Mexican migration to the US. In the short run, high-immigration states see their low … entered the labor force in high-immigration years. A simple quantitative many-region model allows me to obtain the …