Using the large variation in the inflow of immigrants across US states we analyze the impact of immigration on state …

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 …

Immigration is often viewed as a proximate cause of the rising wage gap between high- and low-skilled workers … involved. This paper offers an overview and synthesis of existing knowledge on the relationship between immigration and … in the tails of the skill distribution and higher residual inequality among immigrants than natives. Even so, immigration …

in the population increases patents per capita by 6%. This could be an overestimate of immigration's benefit if immigrant …

This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national U.S. level. Following Borjas … account for the short run and long run adjustment of capital in response to immigration. Using our estimates and Census data … we find that immigration (1990-2006) had small negative effects in the short run on native workers with no high school …

: immigration stimulated job creation, and the complexity of jobs offered to new native hires was higher relative to the complexity …

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 …