In this paper, we document the importance of high-skilled immigration for U.S. employment in STEM fields. To begin, we … previous highs. Next, we consider the importance of immigrant labor to STEM employment. Immigrants account for a … review patterns of U.S. employment in STEM occupations among workers with at least a college degree. These patterns mirror …

We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration … on a wide range of political and social outcomes. The existing evidence suggests that immigrants often, but not always … among natives. Next, we unpack the channels behind the political effects of immigration, distinguishing between economic and …

survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously authorized to employ more immigrants significantly increase production … (elasticity +0.16) with no decrease or an increase in U.S. employment (elasticity +0.10, statistically imprecise) across several …

High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for … comparable quality to natives. The exception to this is that immigrants have a disproportionate impact among the very highest … achievers (e.g., Nobel Prize winners). Studies regarding the impact of immigrants on natives tend to find limited consequences …

countries are those with relatively low skill levels. We find that 1) Mexican immigrants, while much less educated than U ….S. natives, are on average more educated than residents of Mexico, and 2) were Mexican immigrants in the United States to be paid … observable skills there is intermediate or positive selection of immigrants from Mexico. The results also suggest that migration …

Whether immigrants advance in labor markets relative to natives as they gain experience is a fundamental question in … the economics of immigration. For the US, it has been difficult to answer this question for the period when the … immigration rate was at its historical peak, between the 1840s and 1920s. We develop new datasets of linked census records for …

that, while average entry wages fell again after 2000, correcting for simple changes in the composition of new immigrants …This paper studies long-term trends in the labor market performance of immigrants in the United States, using the 1960 …-2000 PUMS and 1994-2009 CPS. While there was a continuous decline in the earnings of new immigrants 1960-1990, the trend …

This paper reassesses the evidence on the assimilation and the changing labor market skills of immigrants to the United … States. We find strong evidence of labor market assimilation for most immigrant groups. For Asian and Mexican immigrants the … understate the actual rate of assimilation because of the sharp decline in the relative wages of unskilled U.S. workers. We also …

Economic growth in Europe and Asia and Latin America could have contri- buted in many different ways to lower wages and … price reductions twist the labor demand curve, dictating lower real wages for unskilled workers who reside in communities … with abundant unskilled labor but raising the wages for unskilled workers who are fortunate to live in communities …