Immigration officials in rich countries are being asked to become overseas development officials, charged with …

on immigration. My aim is to identify facts about international migration relevant to those concerned about why labor …

The effects of immigration are reasonably well understood in developed countries, but they are far more poorly … studying the effects of immigration to Brazil during the Age of Mass Migration on its agricultural sector in 1920. This context … benefits from the widely recognized value of historical perspective in studies of the effects of immigration. But unlike …

rapid growth. Our review of the evidence on the US immigration wave from the region suggests that it bears many similarities … to the major immigration waves of the 19th and early 20th centuries, that the demographic and economic forces behind … immigration from Latin America post-pandemic has the potential to disrupt labor-intensive sectors in many US regional labor …

Several destination countries still adopt general immigration policies, and are characterized by lower returns to … brain drain which demonstrates that migration can increase the average human capital in the sending countries if immigration … sensible assumptions on immigration policies and skill premia, where individuals face heterogeneous and correlated education …

necessarily applicable. On the one hand, borders are generally more porous and immigration controls more lax, so that assimilation … linguistic, cultural and ethnic diversity tends to be higher in West Africa, so basing immigration integration on multicultural …

Restricting immigration to young and skilled immigrants using a point system, as in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand …