The effects of immigration are reasonably well understood in developed countries, but they are far more poorly … studying the effects of immigration to Brazil during the Age of Mass Migration on its agricultural sector in 1920. This context … benefits from the widely recognized value of historical perspective in studies of the effects of immigration. But unlike …

expected wages in migration choices, and that workers face substantial and heterogeneous information frictions. Model …

with jobs in different commuting zones (CZs) and different CZ-industry pairs. About half of the variation in mean wages … industry agglomerations are associated with higher wages, but overall differences in industry composition and in CZ …

wages and destination home prices, and is increasing with destination wages and origin home prices. We then examine the … contributions of earnings and home prices to the noted overall decline in internal migration. These analyses show that wages on …

On February 5, 1917, the United States passed the Immigration Act of 1917, which included a test for all migrants … 'skill-based' immigration policy in an attempt to limit migration. We assess whether the Immigration Act had any measurable … impacts on immigration to the U.S. Using a differences-in-differences approach and digitized data from Ellis Island ship …

This paper shows that the ancestry composition shaped by century-long immigration to the US can explain the current … the co-ethnic networks formed by immigration have a positive causal impact on global supply chain relationships between …