quality of immigrants' labor market skills declined following changes in Canada's immigration policies in 1974 that led to a …-sectional analyses for measuring the pace of immigrant earnings growth, (2) the labor market implications of admissions policies that … place different weights on the work skills possessed by prospective entrants, and (3) the relative impact of selective …

During the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1913), the US maintained an open border, absorbing 30 million European … negatively-selected return migrants. We show that assimilation patterns vary substantially across sending countries and persist …

In this chapter, we describe long-run trends in global merchandise trade and immigration from 1870 to 2010. We revisit … the reasons why these two forces moved largely in parallel in the decades leading up to World War I, collapsed during the … interwar period, and then rebounded (but with much more pronounced growth in trade than in immigration). More substantively, we …

workers with no schooling degree in California were foreign-born in 2004. If immigration harms the labor opportunities of … imperfectly substitutable in production and we exploit differences in immigration across these groups to infer their impact on US … percentage of immigrants in the labor force. It received a very large number of uneducated immigrants so that two thirds of …

life. International migration provides an excellent test of this hypothesis, since life circumstances and average …

shaping the effect of the welfare state genrosity. In a free migration regime, the impact is expected to be negative on the … skill composition of migrants while in a restricted mobility regime, the impact will be the opposite, as voters will prefer … selective migration policies, favoring skilled migrants who tend to be net contributors to the fiscal system. We utilize the …

This paper reassesses the evidence on the assimilation and the changing labor market skills of immigrants to the United … States. We find strong evidence of labor market assimilation for most immigrant groups. For Asian and Mexican immigrants the … understate the actual rate of assimilation because of the sharp decline in the relative wages of unskilled U.S. workers. We also …

Whether immigrants advance in labor markets relative to natives is a fundamental question in immigration economics. It … is difficult to answer this question for the Age of Mass Migration, when US immigration was at its peak. New datasets of …