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 …

selective migration policies, favoring skilled migrants who tend to be net contributors to the fiscal system. We utilize the … between skilled and unskilled migration rates. The main purpose of the paper is to assess the role of mobility restriction on … shaping the effect of the welfare state genrosity. In a free migration regime, the impact is expected to be negative on the …

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 …

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

In this chapter, we describe long-run trends in global merchandise trade and immigration from 1870 to 2010. We revisit … interwar period, and then rebounded (but with much more pronounced growth in trade than in immigration). More substantively, we … industrialized core countries--especially Europe--to those in the former periphery--especially Asia--as well as a very striking …

life. International migration provides an excellent test of this hypothesis, since life circumstances and average …

preferences over immigration. Using data from the European Social Survey from 2014 and 2015, our results document that individual … norms and values strongly shape preferences over immigration, even when controlling for expected costs and benefits from … immigration. In particular, we find that altruistic attitudes significantly raise the support for all types of immigration while …

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 …