An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … of noted refugee waves such as the Mariel Boatlift in Miami and post-Soviet refugees to Israel. We show that conflicting … consensus that the impact of immigration on average native-born workers is small, and fails to substantiate claims of large …

This paper analyzes the spatial distribution of refugees over 1987-2017 and establishes several stylized facts about … refugees today compared with past decades. Refugees still predominantly reside in developing countries neighboring their … country of origin. However, compared to past decades, refugees today (i) travel longer distances, (ii) are less likely to seek …

Research on crime in the late 20th century has consistently shown that immigrants have lower rates of involvement in … involved in crime. In 1904 prison commitment rates for more serious crimes were quite similar by nativity for all ages except …

This paper investigates the link between violent crime and immigration using data from Colombian municipalities during … the recent episode of immigration from Venezuela. The key finding is that, following the closing and then re-opening of … the border in 2016, which precipitated a massive immigration wave, homicides in Colombia increased in areas close to the …

of emigration as well as immigration. We focus on Europe and compare the outcomes for large Western European countries … database of bilateral stocks and net migration flows of immigrants and emigrants by education level for the years 1990 through … inequality because of emigration. Whereas, contrary to the popular belief, immigration had nearly equal but opposite effects …

Past studies of the empirical relationship between immigration and crime during the first major wave of immigration … have focused on violent crime in cities and have relied on data with serious limitations regarding nativity information. We … the urban/rural differences. Immigrants were concentrated in large cities where reported crime rates were higher. However …

We review research on the impact of immigration on income distribution. We discuss routes through which immigration can …. Immigration may affect the composition of skills among the residents of a country. Moreover, immigrants can, by changing relative … recent increases in immigration to OECD countries and on the distribution of native and immigrant educational attainment. We …

migration. In the absence of quotas, this was a period of open international migration, and the numbers who elected to move were … enormous. If international migration is ever to play a role in contributing to convergence, the pre-quota period surely should … be it. This paper offers some estimates which suggest that migration could account for very large shares of the …