labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more …In this chapter we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and … our analysis of the local effects of immigration and we describe several applications. We then discuss the empirical …

We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual … in the population increases patents per capita by 6%. This could be an overestimate of immigration's benefit if immigrant …

composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last 4 decades. Moreover, the … population share of skilled migrants has been approaching or exceeding that of skilled natives. We offer theoretical propositions …

composition of immigrants under free migration is negative. The reason is that welfare state benefits attract unskilled migrants … generosity (and taxes) of the welfare state on the skill composition of migrants is positive if migration is controlled by policy …. Being net contributors to the welfare state, skilled migrants can help finance a more generous welfare-state system; thus …

Skilled migrants typically contribute to the welfare state more than they draw in benefits from it. The opposite holds … for unskilled migrants. This suggests that a host country is likely to boost (respectively, curtail) its welfare system …

In this paper we document the impact of immigration at the regional level on Europeans' political preferences as … consistent with the impact of immigration on individual political preferences, which we estimate using longitudinal data, and on … opinions about immigrants. Conversely, immigration did not affect electoral turnout. Simulations based on the estimated …

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

migrants to the United States. We confirm previous findings that Mexican migrants are selected from the middle of the education … distribution, but show that there is no evidence for selection of migrants on cognitive ability. We demonstrate that migrants are …

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