Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 … Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely … educational attainment, (5) are increasingly likely to originate in southern Mexico and the Mexico City Metropolitan area, and (6 …

Migrants are typically self-selected from the population of their home country. While a large literature has identified … migration from Mexico to the US in the 2000s. We first estimate the degree of selection, and show that Norwegians were … counterfactual in which the same number of migrants are neutrally selected. In both periods, we find virtually no aggregate effect in …

Sweden did not apply any transitional rules for migrants coming from the ten new European Union member states in May …). The composition of the migrants changed. While earlier many more women than men arrived, now the gender composition is …