Using Current Population Survey data, this paper shows that between 1994 and 2008 the poverty rate of immigrants fell three times faster than that of natives. This suggests that during the last business cycle the rising tide lifted immigrants’ boat higher than that of the natives. The paper...

This study uses the Current Population Survey and a decomposition method proposed by Datt and Ravallion to assess the impacts of income growth and income distribution on poverty across states in the United States. It finds that between 1992 and 2011 growth of income, rather than changes in...

In a recent paper, Kemp and Shimomura extend the basic Heckscher-Ohlin model to show that no country has an incentive to hoard its technology. This basic result is not new. It was first shown by William Ellis in 1825. Ellis extended Ricardo's model to obtain the same free trade result. The...