Over 12 million persons migrated to Canada or the United States between 1959 and 1981. Beginning in the mid?1960s, the … immigration policies of the two countries began to diverge considerably: the United States stressing family reunification and … Canada stressing skills. This paper shows that the point system used by Canada generated, on average, a more skilled …

labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more …In this chapter we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and … our analysis of the local effects of immigration and we describe several applications. We then discuss the empirical …

We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …

We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration … 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 … characteristics. The latter allow us to construct incarceration rates for detailed population groups using U.S. Census data. The raw …

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 …

arrivals, can account for only a small portion of it. The upturn appears to have been caused in part by a shift in immigration …