The literature on the impact of immigration on the labor market is highly controversial. The
aim of this paper is to review the existing literature and draw some general conclusions on …

ABSTRACT A large literature exploits geographic variation in the concentration of
immigrants to identify their impact on a variety of outcomes. To address the endogeneity of …

Research on the labor market impact of immigration typically relies on a single-good model
of production with separable capital. This article discusses theory and evidence that suggest …

Most labor economics textbooks pay little attention to actual labor markets, taking as
reference a perfectly competitive market in which losing a job is not a big deal. The …

This paper explores the relationship between openness to trade, immigration, and income
per person across countries. To address endogeneity concerns we extend the instrumental …

With the fall of the Berlin Wall, ethnic Germans living in eastern Europe and the former
Soviet Union were given the opportunity to migrate to Germany. Within 15 years, 2.8 million …

This paper focuses on empirical connections between crime and immigration, studying two
large waves of recent UK immigration (the late 1990s/early 2000s asylum seekers and the …

In this paper we analyze the impact of immigrants on the type and quantity of native jobs. We
use data on 15 Western European countries during the 1996–2010 period. We find that …

We provide causal estimates of the effect of immigration on house prices and construction
activity in Spain over the period 2000–2010. During this period Spain experienced …

In this chapter, we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies
focusing on productivity and labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national …