This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and economic assimilation of refugees … faster economic assimilation. Our evidence suggests that refugees exert more assimilation effort in response to local threat …

suggest small positive effects on wages of non-college natives and no significant crowding out effects on employment … to estimate how changes in the supply of immigrant workers affected natives' wages in the US. We begin by extending the … employment-population ratio of natives to test for crowding out at the national level. Third, we analyze occupational upgrading …

Employment and participation rates for US prime age women rose steadily during the second half of the 20th century. In … the last 30 years, however, those rates stagnated, even as employment and participation rates for women in other … barriers, such as limited investment in family policies, that may be holding back employment among American women today. The …