This paper uses decennial Census data to examine trends in immigrant segregation in the United States between 1910 and … 2000. Immigrant segregation declined in the first half of the century, but has been rising over the past few decades … segregation, as well as housing price patterns across metropolitan areas, to test four hypotheses of immigrant segregation …

This paper reviews the recent evidence on U.S. immigration, focusing on two key questions: (1) Does immigration reduce … the labor market opportunities of less-skilled natives? (2) Have immigrants who arrived after the 1965 Immigration Reform … from immigration and the rise of other education-related wage gaps. Overall, evidence that immigrants have harmed the …

Previous studies tend to find that immigration has a weak negative effect on the employment and earnings of native …-born workers. These studies overlook the effect of immigration on an important sector of the labor force, the self- employed ….S. to examine the relationship between black self-employment and immigration in both 1980 and 1990. To control for permanent …