We document a steady decline in low-skilled immigration that began with the onset of the Great Recession in 2007, which … estimate a stochastic growth model with endogenous immigration and training to account for these facts and study macroeconomic … performance and welfare. Lower immigration leads to higher wages for low-skilled workers and higher consumer prices. Importantly …

This paper shows that immigration fostered the emergence of organized labor in the United States. I digitize archival … isolate a plausibly exogenous shock to the labor supply induced by immigration, between 1900 and 1920. Counties with higher … immigration experienced an increase in the probability of having labor unions, the number of union branches, the share of …