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 …

Natives benefit from immigration mainly because of production complementarities between immigrant workers and other … productive inputs. The available evidence suggests that the economic benefits from immigration for the United States are small … considerably if the United States pursued an immigration policy which attracted a more skilled immigrant flow …

competes with other potential host countries in the "immigration market". Host countries vary in their "offers" of economic … opportunities and also differ in the way they ration entry through their immigration policies. Potential immigrants compare the … various opportunities and are non-randomly sorted by the immigration market among the various host countries. This paper …

, unskilled workers, and old retirees. The welfare-state is modeled by a proportional tax on labor income to finance a demogrant … of demographic and labor productivity characteristics. We find that political coalitions will form among skilled and …