possibility that without tight restrictions on migration, migrants from poor countries could transmit low productivity ("A" or … Total Factor Productivity) to rich countries – offsetting efficiency gains from the spatial reallocation of labor from low … to high-productivity places. We provide a novel assessment, proposing a simple model of dynamically efficient migration …

- experimental evidence on the labor market effects of immigration enforcement policies on citizens across the occupational skill …This paper examines the effects of reducing the supply of low-skilled immigrant workers on the labor market outcomes of …-based immigration enforcement policy, combined with data over 2005-2014 from the American Community Survey to estimate a difference …

prior estimates by including ripple effects beyond the wages earned or taxes paid directly by migrants. The sharp reduction …International migrants who seek protection also participate in the economy. Thus the policy of the United States to … to migrants seeking protection, beyond humanitarian policy concerns, carry substantial economic costs. …

transaction costs, and the productivity shifts arising from migrationinduced knowledge diffusion and increased workforce diversity …

We investigate the relationship between migration and productivity in the UK, using an instrumental variable along the … impact (in both the statistical sense and more broadly) on productivity, as measured at a geographical level; this appears to … may have a positive impact on the training of native workers. We discuss the implications for post-Brexit immigration …

This paper develops and estimates a joint hazard-longitudinal (JHL) model of the timing of migration and labor market … endogenous age of entry in estimating the returns to years since migration by allowing cross-equation correlations of random … attrition and missing wages are also addressed. Using German household panel surveys from 1984 to 2014 and home country …

increase in labour migration to the construction sector. Licensing demands, however, protected some workers from immigrant … research on immigration, political behaviour and collective action. …

randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel … pre-registered subsamples. The results imply very low substitutability of native for foreign labor in the policy …-relevant occupations. Forensic analysis suggests similarly low substitutability of black-market labor. …

countries at rates not seen since before World War One. During the same period, economists' study of international migration has …The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between … effects of global migration during the past half century. That evidence falsifies most of the core predictions of the old …