Immigration policy can have important net fiscal effects that vary by immigrants' skill level. But mainstream methods …

Prior literature on the economic impact of immigration has largely ignored changes to the composition of labor demand ….S. local industries. High-productivity establishments are more likely to enter and less likely to exit in high immigration …

geographical and cultural, immigration policies and migrant networks. Differentiating immigrants by their educational attainments … to the US. -- Migration ; immigration policy ; education ; employment ; wages ; brain drain …

Existing migrant networks play an important role in explaining the size and structure of immigration flows. They affect … the probability of potential migrants to obtain a visa through family reunification programs ("immigration policy" channel … illustration based on US immigration data by metropolitan area and country of origin. First, we show that the overall network …

Immigration may impact income distribution both by affecting the skill composition of a country's residents, and, by … focus primarily on factor prices. We first consider the economic theory of the impact of immigration on factor prices and … immigration on the native income distribution. We then survey the evidence on this question for several countries, and conclude by …

This article studies the impact of immigration restriction policies on technology adoption in sending countries. From … Quota Act, a severely restrictive immigration law. In a difference-in-differences setting, we exploit variation in exposure …

Did recent technological change, in the form of automation, affect immigration policy in the United States? I argue …-skill immigration. I formalise this hypothesis theoretically in a partial equilibrium model with constant elasticity of substitution in … which technology leads to employment polarization, and policy makers can vote on immigration legislation. I empirically …