Dear colleagues, The Department of Economics cordially invites you to the WU Economics Research Seminar on Wednesday, June 1st, with Albrecht Glitz (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) on "Labor Market Competition and the Assimilation of Immigrants" Abstract: In this paper, we show that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between individual skill accumulation and dynamic labor market equilibrium effects. If immigrants and natives are imperfect substitutes, rising immigrant inflows will widen the wage gap between them. Using a simple production function framework in which workers supply both general and host-country-specific skills, we show that this labor market competition channel can explain about one fifth of the large increase in the average immigrant-native wage gap across arrival cohorts in the United States since the 1960s. Date: Wednesday, June 1st Time: 4.30 to 6 pm (CET) Location: building TC, 5th floor, room TC.5.18 With best regards, Harald Oberhofer --- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Harald Oberhofer Department of Economics WU Vienna University of Economics and Business Phone: +43/1/31336-4984 Fax: +43/1/31336-4984 Email: harald.oberhofer@wu.ac.at<mailto:harald.oberhofer@wu.ac.at> Webpage: https://www.wu.ac.at/ie/mitarbeiter/harald-oberhofer/ Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) Phone: +43/1/7982601-468 Fax: +43/1/7989386 Email: harald.oberhofer@wifo.ac.at<mailto:harald.oberhofer@wifo.ac.at> Webpage: http://www.wifo.ac.at/harald_oberhofer