How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation … immigration does not, but rather reduces the share of offshored jobs instead. Moreover, since both phenomena have a positive "cost …

increased immigration would do little to reduce the future fiscal burden. The increased revenue from a large rise in immigration …

from a novel IV estimation that isolates variation in parent skill advantages due to their teacher and classroom peer …

Why is unemployment higher for younger individuals? We address this question in a frictional model of the labor market … observed age differences in unemployment which, as in the data, are due to differences in job separation rates …

unemployment by lowering the aggregate job-finding rate. We use this framework to measure the contribution of mismatch to the … recent rise in U.S. unemployment by exploiting two sources of cross-sectional data on vacancies, JOLTS and HWOL, a new …/3 of the total observed increase in the unemployment rate, whereas geographical mismatch plays no apparent role. The share …

The U.S. population is aging. We examine whether immigration causally affects the likelihood that the U.S.-born elderly … live in institutional settings. Using a shift-share instrument to identify exogenous variation in immigration, we find that … percent) less likely to be living in an institution than would have been the case if immigration had remained at 1980 levels …

compare the capital flows that occur without immigration to the capital inflows that would occur with immigration of 400 …,000 people annually. With the larger labor force from immigration and the larger induced capital accumulation, output will be 22 …

In this paper we document the impact of immigration at the regional level on Europeans' political preferences as … consistent with the impact of immigration on individual political preferences, which we estimate using longitudinal data, and on … opinions about immigrants. Conversely, immigration did not affect electoral turnout. Simulations based on the estimated …