is difficult to answer this question for the Age of Mass Migration, when US immigration was at its peak. New datasets of …Whether immigrants advance in labor markets relative to natives is a fundamental question in immigration economics. It …

places. This paper seeks to understand the labor market implications of allowing free migration across borders, with … particular reference to the EU. The aim is to quantify the migration flows associated with EU enlargement, and to analyze the …

Can history shed light on the modern debate about immigration%u2019s labor market impact in high wage economies? This … paper examines the relationship between migration and capital flows in the age of mass migration before 1914, the so …-called first global century. It then assesses the effects of immigration on wages and employment with and without international …

immigration policies of the two countries began to diverge considerably: the United States stressing family reunification and …

Over the years, there emerged two key policy differences between Europe and America, both welfare and migration …-states. The former has more generous welfare state and more liberal migration policies than the latter. In this paper we attempt …

How will worldwide changes in population affect pressures for international migration in the future? We contrast the … contribution of changes in relative labor-supply to bilateral migration in the 2000s and then apply this model to project future … markedly. Europe, in contrast, will face substantial demographically driven migration pressures from across the Mediterranean …

) the size of the human capital transfer resulting from antebellum immigration; and (3) the causes of the difficulty …

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

During the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1913), the US maintained an open border, absorbing 30 million European … negatively-selected return migrants. We show that assimilation patterns vary substantially across sending countries and persist …

the free migration regime and compare that to immigration into the EU from two other groups, developed and developing … free-migration regime, and the "Fiscal Burden Hypothesis" under the immigration- restricted regime even after controlling …This paper tests the differential effects of the generosity of the welfare state under free migration and under policy …