This paper uses 1990 Census data to study the effects of immigrant inflows on the labor market opportunities of natives …-city migration flows of natives and older immigrants are largely" unaffected by new immigrant inflows. Inflows of new immigrants are … wage structure. The estimates imply that immigrant arrivals between 1985 and 1990 depressed the employment rate of low …

years, however, arrivals from Mexico established sizeable immigrant communities in many "new" cities. We explore the causes … intensity within narrowly defined industries. Such adjustments could be readily explained if Mexican immigrant inflows had large …

Act successfully assimilated? Looking across major cities, differential immigrant inflows are strongly correlated with the … daughters have higher education and wages than the children of natives. Even children of the least- educated immigrant origin …

Rising immigrant inflows have substantially affected the size and composition of the U.S. workforce. They are also …' born to immigrant parents. In this paper we present a comparative perspective on the economic performance of immigrants and … find important intergenerational links between the economic status of immigrant fathers and the economic status and …

the economic and social impacts of immigration, as well as on the desirability of increasing or reducing immigrant inflows …

imperfect substitutes. Together these results imply that the impacts of recent immigrant inflows on the relative wages of U …

-group specific immigrant inflows on the location decisions of natives in the same skill group, and on the overall distribution of … 1970 to predict skill-group specific relative immigrant inflows over the 1980s. Despite wide variation across cities in the … size and relative skill composition of immigrant population changes we find no evidence of selective out-migration by …

, immigrant influws between 1970 and 1980 generated 1-2 percent increases in labor supply to these industries in most cities. A … comparison of industry distributions of less-skilled natives in high- and low-immigrant share cities between 1970 and 1980 shows … some displacement out of low-wage immigrant-intensive industries. We find little effect of immigration on the employment …