We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration … among natives. Next, we unpack the channels behind the political effects of immigration, distinguishing between economic and …

In this study, we first evaluate the effect of a significant increase in low-skilled immigration in Korean … natives moving for work-related and non-work-related reasons. Using a change in immigration policy and the pre …-existing networks of immigrants to construct an instrument for immigration across Korean municipalities, we find that locations …

The effects of immigration are reasonably well understood in developed countries, but they are far more poorly … studying the effects of immigration to Brazil during the Age of Mass Migration on its agricultural sector in 1920. This context … benefits from the widely recognized value of historical perspective in studies of the effects of immigration. But unlike …

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …

We show a causal impact of immigration on innovation and dynamism in US counties. To identify the causal impact of … recent decades. We show four main results. First, immigration has a positive impact on innovation, measured by the patenting … impact of immigration on innovation percolates over space, but spatial spillovers quickly die out with distance. Fourth, the …

agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends …

We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual … in the population increases patents per capita by 6%. This could be an overestimate of immigration's benefit if immigrant …