correlation between immigration, black wages, black employment rates, and black incarceration rates. As immigrants …The employment rate of black men, and particularly of low-skill black men, fell precipitously from 1960 to 2000. At the … same time, the incarceration rate of black men rose markedly. This paper examines the relation between immigration and …

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 …

In this paper, we document the importance of high-skilled immigration for U.S. employment in STEM fields. To begin, we … review patterns of U.S. employment in STEM occupations among workers with at least a college degree. These patterns mirror … peaked around the year 2000, at the height of the dot-com bubble. STEM employment shares are just now approaching these …

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 …