the economics of immigration. For the US, it has been difficult to answer this question for the period when the … immigration rate was at its historical peak, between the 1840s and 1920s. We develop new datasets of linked census records for …

negatively-selected return migrants. We show that assimilation patterns vary substantially across sending countries and persist …

Economists are often puzzled by the stronger public opposition to immigration than trade, since the two policies have … similar effects on wages. Unlike trade, however, immigration can alter the composition of the local population, imposing … toward immigration. We use data for 21 countries in the 2002 European Social Survey, which included a series of questions on …

This paper reviews the recent evidence on U.S. immigration, focusing on two key questions: (1) Does immigration reduce … the labor market opportunities of less-skilled natives? (2) Have immigrants who arrived after the 1965 Immigration Reform … from immigration and the rise of other education-related wage gaps. Overall, evidence that immigrants have harmed the …