We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration …, trigger backlash, increasing support for anti-immigrant parties and lowering preferences for redistribution and diversity … among natives. Next, we unpack the channels behind the political effects of immigration, distinguishing between economic and …

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 …

Past studies of the empirical relationship between immigration and crime during the first major wave of immigration … about immigrant criminality. But adjusting for age and gender greatly narrows that observed gap. Particularly striking are …

migrants to the United States. We confirm previous findings that Mexican migrants are selected from the middle of the education … distribution, but show that there is no evidence for selection of migrants on cognitive ability. We demonstrate that migrants are …

improvement in immigrant performance is not explained by changes in origin-country composition, educational attainment or state of … arrivals, can account for only a small portion of it. The upturn appears to have been caused in part by a shift in immigration …

Can history shed light on the modern debate about immigration's labor market impact in high wage economies? This paper … global century. It then assesses the effects of immigration on wages and employment with and without international capital … economic relationships and immigration policy. It concludes with an explanation for the apparent difference in immigration …

. The immigrant- native difference in the probability of receiving cash benefits is small, but the gap widens once other … programs are included in the analysis: 21 percent of immigrant households receive some type of assistance, as compared to only …

immigration policies of the two countries began to diverge considerably: the United States stressing family reunification and … immigrant flow than that which entered the United States. This skill gap, however, is mostly attributable to differences in the … national origin mix of the immigrant flows admitted by the two countries. In effect, the point system "works" because it alters …

household income, shows that the family attenuates the selection characterizing the skills of the immigrant population. The … empirical analysis uses the 1970 and 1980 Public Use Samples of the U.S. Census, and reveals that an immigrant's skills and … placement in the immigration chain …