equilibrium life-cycle model to analyze general and skill-specific immigration policy during the demographic transition. The three … regions are the U.S., Japan, and the EU. Immigration is often offered as a solution to the remarkable again underway in the … developed world. Absent an immediate and dramatic change in immigration, dependency ratios will roughly double over the next …

In this chapter, we describe long-run trends in global merchandise trade and immigration from 1870 to 2010. We revisit … interwar period, and then rebounded (but with much more pronounced growth in trade than in immigration). More substantively, we … differences framework in combination with a dramatic change in US immigration policy, we find evidence that immigration and trade …

We review research on the impact of immigration on income distribution. We discuss routes through which immigration can …. Immigration may affect the composition of skills among the residents of a country. Moreover, immigrants can, by changing relative … recent increases in immigration to OECD countries and on the distribution of native and immigrant educational attainment. We …