How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation … immigration does not, but rather reduces the share of offshored jobs instead. Moreover, since both phenomena have a positive "cost …

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

Using the large variation in the inflow of immigrants across US states we analyze the impact of immigration on state …

Immigration is often viewed as a proximate cause of the rising wage gap between high- and low-skilled workers … involved. This paper offers an overview and synthesis of existing knowledge on the relationship between immigration and …. Even so, immigration accounts for a small share (5%) of the increase in U.S. wage inequality between 1980 and 2000 …

in the population increases patents per capita by 6%. This could be an overestimate of immigration's benefit if immigrant …

This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national U.S. level. Following Borjas … account for the short run and long run adjustment of capital in response to immigration. Using our estimates and Census data … we find that immigration (1990-2006) had small negative effects in the short run on native workers with no high school …

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 …

In this paper, we document the importance of high-skilled immigration for U.S. employment in STEM fields. To begin, we …