1970 -- the income gap between the US and the sending country, the education gap between the US and the sending country …

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

distribution of natives with similar education and age. We find no evidence of the first but significant evidence of the second …: immigration stimulated job creation, and the complexity of jobs offered to new native hires was higher relative to the complexity …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …