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 … immigration%u2019s impact in the two global centuries, and thus on policy …

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 …

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

generally, an interaction term between skills and GDP per capita has a negative impact in regressions explaining anti-globalization … sample being high-skilled has a negative (if statistically insignificant) impact on pro-globalization sentiment. More …The aim of the paper is to see whether individuals' attitudes towards globalization are consistent with the predictions …

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 …

We study the effects of immigration on the diversity of consumption choices. Data from California in the 1990s indicate … that immigration is associated with fewer stand-alone retail stores, and a greater number of large and in particular big …-box retailers - evidence that likely contradicts a diversity-enhancing effect of immigration. In contrast, focusing on the …

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 … regions, relative to natives. Immigrants are different from natives in several economically relevant skills. Their impact on …

The United States has experienced rising immigration levels and changing source since the 1950s. The changes in source … have been attributed to the 1965 Amendments to the Immigration Act that abolished country-quotas and replaced them with a … US immigrants. Given this view, it seems all the more remarkable that the sources of immigration changed so dramatically …

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

residence. Changes in labor market conditions, including changes in the wage structure which could differentially impact recent …This paper studies long-term trends in the labor market performance of immigrants in the United States, using the 1960 … arrivals, can account for only a small portion of it. The upturn appears to have been caused in part by a shift in immigration …