How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation … immigration does not, but rather reduces the share of offshored jobs instead. Moreover, since both phenomena have a positive "cost …

unemployment by lowering the aggregate job-finding rate. We use this framework to measure the contribution of mismatch to the … recent rise in U.S. unemployment by exploiting two sources of cross-sectional data on vacancies, JOLTS and HWOL, a new …/3 of the total observed increase in the unemployment rate, whereas geographical mismatch plays no apparent role. The share …

Why is unemployment higher for younger individuals? We address this question in a frictional model of the labor market … observed age differences in unemployment which, as in the data, are due to differences in job separation rates …

compare the capital flows that occur without immigration to the capital inflows that would occur with immigration of 400 …,000 people annually. With the larger labor force from immigration and the larger induced capital accumulation, output will be 22 …

: immigration stimulated job creation, and the complexity of jobs offered to new native hires was higher relative to the complexity …

accumulated insights from the literature on the economic impact of immigration. A crucial lesson from that literature is that any …

market impact of immigration. My recent reappraisal (Borjas, 2015) revealed that even the most cursory reexamination implied …