Canadian immigrants at the time of immigration fall short of the earnings of comparable Canadian-born individuals, and (2 … recent changes in Canadian immigration policy, labor market discrimination against visible minorities, and the prolonged …

In this paper, we document the importance of high-skilled immigration for U.S. employment in STEM fields. To begin, we …

skills declined following changes in Canada's immigration policies in 1974 that led to a sharp increase in the proportion of … complete until 13 to 22 years after entry into Canada. These results are revealed clearly in both the pseudo-longitudinal and … increases with their duration of stay in Canada, and since there are no differential immigrant-native changes in higher …

same time, the incarceration rate of black men rose markedly. This paper examines the relation between immigration and … correlation between immigration, black wages, black employment rates, and black incarceration rates. As immigrants …

In the absence of distortionary tax and spending policies, freer immigration and trade for a country would often be …, can do neither of these. This suggests quite different political coalitions may organize around trade and immigration. In … strategies and also fiscal jurisdictions. We then apply this framework to the case of individual immigration and trade …

In the early 1990s Israel experienced a large and concentrated surge of immigration from the former Soviet Union. Most … immigration shock, existing research has found little evidence that it put downward pressure on Israeli wages. In this paper we … immigration inflow: the adoption of global changes in production technology, and national changes in the mix of traded goods …

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 …

(positive selection) and more-educated migrants are more likely to settle in destination countries with high rewards to skill … simple model of income maximization can account for both phenomena. Results on selection show that migrants for a source …-destination pair are more educated relative to non-migrants the larger is the absolute skill-related difference in earnings between the …

received their K-12 education domestically). We obtain similar results for immigrant sorting in Canada, which supports our … interpretation that origin-country education quality, rather than US immigration policy, is what drives sorting patterns. In …