cohort (made possible by the data for the first time since 1961), black immigration from Africa and the Americas, skin …, and that immigration, by introducing accomplished black immigrants from Africa (notably via the visa lottery), threatens … of the United States. -- immigration ; immigrant visas ; social stratification ; gender ; race ; Hispanic origin ; skin …

. Little is known of what drives that growth. We propose that the expansion of interior immigration enforcement, a … characteristic of the U.S. immigration policy during that time span, might have contributed to this unique trend by pushing Mexican … immigrants into self-employment as an alternative livelihood. Exploiting temporal and geographic variation in immigration …

immigration enforcement initiatives across the United States, we evaluate the impact of a tougher policy environment on …

intensified immigration enforcement, particularly among Mexican non-citizens. Exploiting the temporal and geographic variation in … the implementation of interior immigration enforcement from 2005 to 2017, we find that a one standard deviation increase …

, the latter using estimates developed by DHS (2002), Passel (2002), and Costanzo et al. (2002). -- Illegal immigration … ; legal immigration ; administrative data ; survey data …

We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee … large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and irregular migrants. Refugees … and female irregular migrants are positively self-selected with respect to human capital, while male irregular migrants …

their own visa path, and there are not strong reasons why a loosening of restrictions on employment migrants need be … accompanied by new restrictions on family-based immigration. Moreover, it is misleading to think that only employment …

The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public … in the immigration flows from different countries, sampling error, and the effects of emigration - is fundamentally …

to immigration violations and increased awareness of immigration raids impact their labor market outcomes. We find that … immigration policies has little impact on these results. …