arrivals, can account for only a small portion of it. The upturn appears to have been caused in part by a shift in immigration …

immigration policies of the two countries began to diverge considerably: the United States stressing family reunification and …

) the size of the human capital transfer resulting from antebellum immigration; and (3) the causes of the difficulty …

measures and analysis of more migrant-origin countries. Hurricanes increase U.S. immigration, with the effect increasing in the … size of prior migrant stocks. Large migrant networks reduce fixed costs by facilitating legal immigration from hurricane …-affected source countries. Hurricane-induced immigration can be fully accounted for by new legal permanent residents (“green card …

of emigration as well as immigration. We focus on Europe and compare the outcomes for large Western European countries … inequality because of emigration. Whereas, contrary to the popular belief, immigration had nearly equal but opposite effects … are misplaced; immigration has had a positive average wage effect on native workers. Some concerns should be focused on …

Past studies of the empirical relationship between immigration and crime during the first major wave of immigration …

We review research on the impact of immigration on income distribution. We discuss routes through which immigration can …. Immigration may affect the composition of skills among the residents of a country. Moreover, immigrants can, by changing relative … recent increases in immigration to OECD countries and on the distribution of native and immigrant educational attainment. We …

no effect of immigration on native poverty at the national level. At the local level, only considering the most extreme … estimates and only in some localities, we find non-trivial effects of immigration on poverty. In general, however, even the … local effects of immigration bear very little correlation with the observed changes in poverty rates and they explain a …

There is a long-standing debate among academics about the effect of immigration on native internal migration decisions …. If immigrants displace natives this may indicate a direct cost of immigration in the form of decreased employment … underestimate the consequences of immigration. The widespread use of such area studies for the US and other countries makes it …