83 Citations
The effects of immigration in frictional labor markets: Theory and empirical evidence from EU countries
- Economics
- 2016
Labor Market Effects of Immigration Policies Border Enforcement and Amnesty
- Economics
- 2018
We explore the effects of tighter border enforcement and an amnesty on the wages and unemployment rates of natives and immigrants. We extend the Mortensen-Pissarides labor market model to include…
The Labor Market Effects of Immigration Enforcement
- EconomicsSSRN Electronic Journal
- 2018
This paper examines the effects of reducing the supply of low-skilled immigrant workers on the labor market outcomes of domestic workers. We use temporal and geographic variation in the introduction…
The Labor Market Effects of Immigration
- EconomicsImmigration and the Current Social, Political, and Economic Climate
- 2019
This chapter discusses the effects of immigration on the labor market of receiving countries, focusing on employment. The effect of immigration on the welfare of native population is an important…
Immigration, Crimes and Frictional Labor Market
- Economics
- 2018
This paper studies the relationship between immigration and crime in a frictional labor market. Immigration strengthens the labor market in the host country by reducing firms’ labor costs. With more…
The Effect of Immigration on Labor Market Transitions of Native-Born Unemployed in the United States
- Economics
- 2020
Unemployed workers are the group most likely to be affected by the presence of immigrants in their local labor markets since they are actively competing for job opportunities. Yet, little is known…
Immigration and Crime in a Frictional Labor Market
- EconomicsSSRN Electronic Journal
- 2019
This paper studies the relationship between immigration and crime in a frictional labor market. Immigration strengthens the labor market in the host country by reducing firms' labor costs. With more…
Labor Market Competition and the Assimilation of Immigrants
- EconomicsSSRN Electronic Journal
- 2021
In this paper, we show that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between individual skill accumulation and dynamic equilibrium effects in the labor market.…
Immigration and remittances in a two-country model of growth with labor market frictions
- Economics
- 2020
Illegal Immigration, Labour Supply, and Fiscal Policies
- EconomicsGlobal Economic Review
- 2022
ABSTRACT This paper explores the economic impact of illegal immigration in a dynamic general equilibrium model when the domestic labour supply is elastic and the fiscal policies include various taxes…
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Protective or Counter-Productive? Labor Market Institutions and the Effect of Immigration on EU Natives
- Economics
- 2002
We estimate the effect of immigrant flows on native employment in Western Europe, and then ask whether the employment consequences of immigration vary with institutions that affect labor market…
RETHINKING THE EFFECT OF IMMIGRATION ON WAGES
- EconomicsWorld Scientific Studies in International Economics
- 2012
This paper asks the following question: what was the effect of surging immigration on average and individual wages of U.S.-born workers during the period 1990-2004? We emphasize the need for a…
A Search‐Equilibrium Approach to the Effects of Immigration on Labor Market Outcomes
- Economics
- 2012
We analyze the impact of the skill-biased immigration inux that took place during the years 2000-2009 in the United States, within a search and matching model that allows for skill heterogeneity,…
Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection: Evidence from Europe before and during the Great Recession
- Economics
- 2014
In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on native jobs in fourteen Western European countries. We test whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates…
Legalization and the Economic Status of Immigrants
- Economics
- 2010
This paper investigates the impact of legalization on the economic outcomes of the legalized population. It uses a natural experiment caused by the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA)…
Undocumented workers in the labor market: An analysis of the earnings of legal and illegal Mexican immigrants in the United States
- Economics, LawJournal of population economics
- 1999
Though illegal immigrants have lower education and English proficiency, and a shorter period of residence in the United States, than legal immigrants, it is shown that differences in the observed characteristics of legal andillegal immigrants explain only 48% of the log-wage gap between male legal and illegal workers and 43% ofThe gap for women.
Immigrants in the American Labor Market: Quality, Assimilation, and Distributional Effects
- Economics
- 1991
This paper provides evidence on immigrants performance and impact in the U.S. labor market. We document that new immigrants do bring fewer marketable skills to the United States than did earlier…
Meta-Analysis of Empirical Evidence on the Labour Market Impacts of Immigration
- Economics
- 2008
The increasing proportion of immigrants in the population of many countries has raised concerns about the ‘absorption capacity’ of the labour market, and fuelled extensive empirical research in…