characteristics or immigration policy, but may reflect immigrants' resilience to economic shocks … representative long-run series (1850-2020) of incarceration rates for immigrants and the US-born. As a group, immigrants had higher … among immigrants from all sending regions. This decline cannot be explained by changes in immigrants' observable …

expansions and contractions of firms' employment) as well as along the extensive margin (job flows due to births and deaths of … firms). This paper uses 1992-2011 employment data from the {universe} of U.S. establishments to construct job flows at both … China shock is accounted for by either the increase in Chinese import penetration in the U.S., or by the U.S. policy change …

spurious evidence that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Using minimum wage variation within contiguous county pairs … sharing a state border, they find no relationship between minimum wages and employment in the U.S. restaurant industry. Using …

a large archive of recorded oral history interviews to understand linguistic attainment of migrants who arrived in the … migrants achieved a greater depth of English vocabulary than did economic/family migrants, a finding that holds even when … comparing migrants from the same country of origin or religious group. This study improves on previous research on immigrant …

Using millions of father-son pairs spanning more than 100 years of US history, we find that children of immigrants from … nearly every sending country have higher rates of upward mobility than children of the US-born. Immigrants' advantage is … similar historically and today despite dramatic shifts in sending countries and US immigration policy. In the past, this …

Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial group in the US but we know little about how Asian immigration has …

Recent policy debate on minimum wages has focused not only on raising the minimum wage, but on eliminating the tip … credit for restaurant workers. We use data on past variation in tip credits - or minimum wages for restaurant workers - to … minimum wages (smaller tip credits) reducing jobs among tipped restaurant workers, without earnings effects on those who …

The disagreement among studies of the employment effects of minimum wages in the United States is well known. What is … economists even summarize the body of evidence on the employment effects of minimum wages. Summaries range from "it is now well …-established that higher minimum wages do not reduce employment," to "the evidence is very mixed with effects centered on zero so there …

find a hint of negative employment effects. Nationally, we find some evidence of disemployment effects for teens, but not …