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

How readily do potential migrants respond to increased returns to migration? Even if origin areas become less … measures and analysis of more migrant-origin countries. Hurricanes increase U.S. immigration, with the effect increasing in the … size of prior migrant stocks. Large migrant networks reduce fixed costs by facilitating legal immigration from hurricane …

From the 1970s to the early 2000s, the United States experienced an epochal wave of low-skilled immigration. Since the …-skilled, foreign-born workers has remained stable. We examine how the scale and composition of low-skilled immigration in the United … contributed to the recent immigration slowdown. Because major source countries for U.S. immigration are now seeing and will …

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

In this chapter, we describe long-run trends in global merchandise trade and immigration from 1870 to 2010. We revisit … interwar period, and then rebounded (but with much more pronounced growth in trade than in immigration). More substantively, we … differences framework in combination with a dramatic change in US immigration policy, we find evidence that immigration and trade …

. In this paper, we document how high-skill immigration affects product reallocation (entry and exit) at the firm level …

baseline views that respondents have of immigrants, simply making them think about immigration before asking questions about …, suggesting that when it comes to immigration, salience and narratives shape people's views more deeply than hard facts …

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 …

We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of …