The paper analyses the welfare effects of immigration when some sectors of the economy are characterized by wage bargaining between unions and employers. We show that immigration is unambiguously beneficial if the wage elasticity of labor demand in the competitive sectors is smaller than in the unionised sectors. In the opposite case, the welfare effect of immigration is ambiguous; little immig...

The large influx of immigrants in recent decades has led to an equally long debate over their effect on the labor market outcomes of native-born workers. Economic theory posits that an increase in the supply of labor, such as from immigration, will reduce the wage employers are willing to pay all workers (native-born and foreign-born) in a given labor market. As a result, some of the workers wh...

Restrictive immigration policies and the militarization of external border controls by the US and the EU have failed to significantly curb immigration from Latin America and Africa. Rather, they have led to increasing reliance on increasingly risky and costly irregular migration and have paradoxically encouraged permanent settlement. A commonly presented ‘smart solution’ to curb immigration is ...

Despite recent downward trends, youth violence continues to be a significant concern in the United States, as evidenced by recent calls for action (Office of the Surgeon General, 2001). Furthermore, rates of youth violence in this country are still among the highest in the industrial world (Cunningham, 2000). As discussed by Smith and Guerra (introduction, this volume) and throughout this book,...

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta E C O N O M I C R E V I E W First Quarter 2002 T he fraction of the U.S. population composed of the foreign-born reached 11 percent in 2000, the highest in seventy years. The large number of immigrants in the United States has prompted concern about possible negative effects on labor market outcomes among natives. Such concerns are particularly widespread among l...

Competing values underlie U.S. immigration law and child welfare law. Immigration law often operates in ways that intentionally hinder family unity, which in the child welfare context enjoys tremendous constitutional protection. First, the operation of immigration law undermines family unity by failing to recognize the variety of family structures that exist, which has profound implications for...

OBJECTIVE To determine the impact of immigration status as well as race/ethnicity and social and economic factors on breastfeeding initiation. DESIGN Cohort. SETTING Multisite group practice in eastern Massachusetts. PARTICIPANTS One thousand eight hundred twenty-nine pregnant women prospectively followed up in Project Viva. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Whether the participant breastfed her inf...

Do policy failures inevitably lead to electoral punishment? This paper examines the role ofimmigration in the 2015 UK general election to argue that policy failure can be electorallysuccessful. In the 2010 election, the Conservatives had committed to reduce net migrationto under one hundred thousand. As majority partners in the 2010-15 Coalition government,they failed spectacula...

in this paper we tried to analyze the relationship between migration, informal settlement, and unemployment in ahvaz as the regional metropolis of khuzestan state. unemployment and migration interaction effect with each other. because on the one hand unequal distribution facilities and services leads to unemployment and job for people, the other hand, mass unemployment in section of the workfor...