In this paper we employ a wage‐setting approach to analyze the labor market effects of
immigration into Germany from 1980 to 2004. This enables us to consider labor market …

Supply-side factors may contribute to rising wage inequality. First, certain changes in the
supply of skills allegedly exacerbate wage inequality. Women's increased labor force …

In this paper, I selectively discuss recent empirical work on the consequences of global labor
mobility. I examine how international migration affects the incomes of individuals in sending …

This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country
economic conditions. We employ panel vector autoregression (VAR) techniques for a large …

Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one
million arriving in Germany alone. Yet little is known about the impact of this inflow on labour …

Most studies that look across local labour markets have found the effects of immigration to
be benign. One possibility is that immigrants to a specific area simply push non‐immigrants …

The recent refugee surge has brought attention to the macro-critical policy issue of
migration, including speculations that migration can be an unfavorable phenomenon for the …

Net migration into the EU has been substantial over the past decade: After peaking at over 1
million per year in the early 1990's, net migration to the EU declined over the past decade …

We examine the labor market effects of Secure Communities (SC), a police-based
immigration enforcement policy implemented in 2008–13. Using variation in implementation …

This book, in its second edition, introduces readers to the economics of immigration, which is
a booming field within economics. The main themes and objectives of the book are for …