Economic debate about the consequences of immigration in Germany has largely focused on the wage effects for natives at … an aggregate level. Especially the role of imperfect substitutability of migrants and natives gained importance. A new … workers: migrants are heavily concentrated in agglomerations and work in different jobs than natives do. This gives an …

labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more …In this chapter, we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and … our analysis of the local effects of immigration, and we describe several applications. We then discuss the empirical …

impact of immigration on innovation is stronger for more educated migrants …We show a causal impact of immigration on innovation and dynamism in US counties. To identify the causal impact of … recent decades. We show four main results. First, immigration has a positive impact on innovation, measured by the patenting …

We show a causal impact of immigration on innovation and growth in US counties. To identify the causal impact of … county in recent decades. We show immigration has a positive causal impact on innovation, measured as patenting of local … identified causal impact of migration on innovation suggests the large inflow of foreign migrants into the US since 1965 may have …

migrants are perfect substitutes within a firm. In this setting, a skilled labor supply shock due to immigration has two …In this paper, we provide new explanations for the puzzling findings in the literature that migrants do not decrease … natives' wages, and that skilled immigration can actually increase them. We develop a model with regional labor markets and …

Contrary to the welfare magnet hypothesis, empirical evidence suggests that immigration decisions are not made on the … between immigrants and non-immigrants rather than to immigration status per se. Moreover, evidence in some countries suggests …