Most research on the effects of immigration focuses on the effects of immigrants as adding to the supply of labor. By …

employment (rather than wage) response by skill to immigration in a state, I can estimate the substitutability … of the Mexican Population to predict immigration by skill level within California. Looking at immigration to California …, in turn, explains the counter-intuitive fact that there is a zero correlation between immigration and wage and employment …

measures and analysis of more migrant-origin countries. Hurricanes increase U.S. immigration, with the effect increasing in the … size of prior migrant stocks. Large migrant networks reduce fixed costs by facilitating legal immigration from hurricane …-affected source countries. Hurricane-induced immigration can be fully accounted for by new legal permanent residents ("green card …

From the 1970s to the early 2000s, the United States experienced an epochal wave of low-skilled immigration. Since the …-skilled, foreign-born workers has remained stable. We examine how the scale and composition of low-skilled immigration in the United … contributed to the recent immigration slowdown. Because major source countries for U.S. immigration are now seeing and will …

changes in immigration policy. I quantitatively illustrate these insights by evaluating two policies: an expansion of and the …

In this paper, we show that labor-market adjustment to immigration differs across tradable and nontradable occupations … occupation labor payments is consistent with adjustment to immigration within tradables occurring more through changes in output … changes in U.S. immigration …

We study the effects of European immigration to the United States during the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1920) on … economic prosperity today. We exploit variation in the extent of immigration across counties arising from the interaction of … locations with more historical immigration today have higher incomes, less poverty, less unemployment, higher rates of …

relevant for the current debate about migration and globalization. The immigration wave was distinctive for its large high … ranked at the top of intergenerational upward mobility. Immigration also changed the entire economic landscape: it raised …