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 …

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 …

of STEM worker growth on the wages and employment of college and non-college educated native workers in 219 U.S. cities … workers in a city were associated with significant increases in wages paid to college educated natives. Wage increases for non …-college educated natives are smaller but still significant. We do not find significant effects on employment. We also find that STEM …

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 …

From the 1970s to the early 2000s, the United States experienced an epochal wave of low-skilled immigration. Since the … workers. The number of undocumented immigrants has declined in absolute terms, while the overall population of low …-skilled, foreign-born workers has remained stable. We examine how the scale and composition of low-skilled immigration in the United …

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 …

This paper finds that immigrants on average earned about $0.50/hour less than native-born Americans in 1989. Immigrants … finds that when immigrants first arrive in the U.S. they earn significantly less than native workers, but they close the gap … assimilation. However, since the 1950s and 1960s the wage gap between natives and newly arrived immigrants has widened by 0.2 to 0 …

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 …

wages of immigrants vis … vis the native born have declined. Using data from four U.S. Censuses (1960 - 1990) we examine … changes in the wage structure and their role in explaining comparisons between immigrants and the native-born in mean wages …Over the past thirty years, immigration has increased, immigrant characteristics have changed, and the relative mean …