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 …

Rising income inequality has recently come centre‐stage as a core societal concern for rich
countries. The diagnosis of the forces driving inequality upwards and their relative …

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 …

By exploiting a commuting policy that led to a sharp and unexpected inflow of Czech
workers to areas along the German-Czech border, we examine the impact of an exogenous …

This paper estimates the welfare effects of Brexit in the medium to long run, focusing on
trade and fiscal transfers. We use a standard quantitative general equilibrium trade model …

Immigration has been a steady force acting on population and employment within countries
throughout human history. Focusing on the last four decades, we show that the mix of …

Using longitudinal data on the universe of workers in Denmark during the period 1991–
2008, we track the labor market outcomes of low-skilled natives in response to an …

Many migrations are temporary—a fact that has often been ignored in the economic
literature on migration. Such omission may be serious in that expected migration …

We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss
the effects of immigration on a wide range of political and social outcomes. The existing …

We investigate the fiscal impact of immigration on the UK economy, with a focus on the
period since 1995. Our findings indicate that, when considering the resident immigrant …