The impact of immigration: Why do studies reach such different results?

C Dustmann, U Schönberg, J Stuhler - Journal of Economic …, 2016 - aeaweb.org
We classify the empirical literature on the wage impact of immigration into three groups,
where studies in the first two groups estimate different relative effects, and studies in the third …

Education–occupation mismatch and nativity inequality among highly educated US workers

X Li, Y Lu - Demography, 2023 - read.dukeupress.edu
Extensive research has documented persistent nativity inequality in the US labor market,
even among high-skilled immigrants. Yet, this phenomenon has not been sufficiently …

Immigration and spatial equilibrium: the role of expenditures in the country of origin

C Albert, J Monras - American Economic Review, 2022 - aeaweb.org
We document that international migrants concentrate more in expensive cities—the more so,
the lower the prices in their origin countries are—and consume less locally than comparable …

Monopsony and the wage effects of migration

M Amior, A Manning - 2020 - eprints.lse.ac.uk
In a competitive labor market, immigration affects native wages only through its impact on
marginal products. Under the sole assumption of constant returns, we show that a larger …

Who competes with whom? Using occupation characteristics to estimate the impact of immigration on native wages

J Sharpe, CR Bollinger - Labour Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
Many studies have examined the impact of immigration on native wages. Some of these
studies have relied upon education-experience groups to define labor markets and identify …

Immigration, local crowd-out and undercoverage bias

M Amior - 2020 - eprints.lse.ac.uk
Revised May 2020. Revised January 2021. Using decadal census data since 1960, I cannot
reject the hypothesis that new immigrants crowd out existing residents from US commuting …

The contribution of immigration to local labor market adjustment

M Amior - 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
The US faces persistent spatial disparities in joblessness, which should theoretically be
eliminated by population reallocation. Can immigration accelerate this adjustment process …

The relative pay for foreign work: A novel evidence from home and host countries

A Cupák, P Ciaian - Social Science Research, 2024 - Elsevier
The literature has robustly documented a negative migrant-native wage gap in developed
economies. Yet empirical evidence of pay differences has been elusive for developing …

Immigrant Relative Wages at the Great Recession: Evidence with Matched Employer‐Employee Data for Spain

IP Murillo‐Huertas, H Simón - Bulletin of Economic Research, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The article examines relative wages of immigrants in Spain, with a particular focus on the
impact of the Great Recession. The empirical analysis is restricted to men and is based on …

Were they a shock or an opportunity?: The heterogeneous impacts of the 9/11 attacks on refugees as job seekers—a nonlinear multi-level approach

S Shin - Empirical economics, 2021 - Springer
This study investigates whether the September 11 terrorist attacks had any impacts on the
labor market outcomes of refugees resettled in the United States, who should be …