Immigration policy can have important net fiscal effects that vary by immigrants' skill level. But mainstream methods …

Prior literature on the economic impact of immigration has largely ignored changes to the composition of labor demand ….S. local industries. High-productivity establishments are more likely to enter and less likely to exit in high immigration …

Existing migrant networks play an important role in explaining the size and structure of immigration flows. They affect … the probability of potential migrants to obtain a visa through family reunification programs ("immigration policy" channel … illustration based on US immigration data by metropolitan area and country of origin. First, we show that the overall network …

Immigration may impact income distribution both by affecting the skill composition of a country's residents, and, by … focus primarily on factor prices. We first consider the economic theory of the impact of immigration on factor prices and … immigration on the native income distribution. We then survey the evidence on this question for several countries, and conclude by …