positive productivity effect of immigrants was also associated with faster growth of capital, larger exports and higher wages …In this paper we analyze the impact of an increase in the local supply of immigrants on firms’ outcomes, allowing for … department (a small geographic area) increased the total factor productivity of firms in that department. Immigrants were …

, 55% higher employment growth and 80% higher sales growth five years later. Patent winners also pursue more, and higher … quality, follow-on innovation. Winning a first patent boosts a startup's subsequent growth and innovation by facilitating …

Past studies of the empirical relationship between immigration and crime during the first major wave of immigration … the urban/rural differences. Immigrants were concentrated in large cities where reported crime rates were higher. However …

eligibility for legal immigrants, who had been previously eligible on the same terms as citizens. These dramatic cutbacks affected …. In this paper, we comprehensively examine the status of the U.S. safety net for immigrants and their family members. We … trends in program participation, income, and poverty among immigrants (and natives). We pay particular attention to the …

In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on native jobs in fourteen Western European countries. We test … whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational …: immigrants took "simple" (manual-routine) type of occupations and natives moved, in response, toward more "complex" (abstract …

Research on the labor market impact of immigration typically relies on a single-good model of production with separable … market impact of immigration. A reasonable level of capital-skill complementarity, for which there is considerable support … outside research on immigration, alone reduces the relative wage impact of immigration by 40 percent compared to simulations …

This paper studies long-term trends in the labor market performance of immigrants in the United States, using the 1960 …-2000 PUMS and 1994-2009 CPS. While there was a continuous decline in the earnings of new immigrants 1960-1990, the trend … improvement in immigrant performance is not explained by changes in origin-country composition, educational attainment or state of …

Can history shed light on the modern debate about immigration%u2019s labor market impact in high wage economies? This …-called first global century. It then assesses the effects of immigration on wages and employment with and without international … between these economic relationships and immigration policy. It concludes with an explanation for the apparent difference in …

changes in immigration policy. I quantitatively illustrate these insights by evaluating two policies: an expansion of and the …

We study the effects of European immigration to the United States during the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1920) on … economic prosperity today. We exploit variation in the extent of immigration across counties arising from the interaction of … locations with more historical immigration today have higher incomes, less poverty, less unemployment, higher rates of …