possibility that without tight restrictions on migration, migrants from poor countries could transmit low productivity ("A" or … Total Factor Productivity) to rich countries – offsetting efficiency gains from the spatial reallocation of labor from low … to high-productivity places. We provide a novel assessment, proposing a simple model of dynamically efficient migration …

We examine a little-known restriction on high-skill immigration to the United States, the Exchange Visitor Skills List … outdated because it fails to reflect modern economic research on the complex effects of skilled migration on overseas …

Llull presents a cross-country analysis of the impact of immigration on productivity and employment. Push … imply a semi-elasticity of native wages to immigration of −0.7 if the extensive margin of labour supply is ignored (the … share of immigrants in the population reduces GDP per capita by 2%, the employment rate by 0.89 percentage points, and …

- experimental evidence on the labor market effects of immigration enforcement policies on citizens across the occupational skill …This paper examines the effects of reducing the supply of low-skilled immigrant workers on the labor market outcomes of …-based immigration enforcement policy, combined with data over 2005-2014 from the American Community Survey to estimate a difference …

prior estimates by including ripple effects beyond the wages earned or taxes paid directly by migrants. The sharp reduction …International migrants who seek protection also participate in the economy. Thus the policy of the United States to … to migrants seeking protection, beyond humanitarian policy concerns, carry substantial economic costs. …

Can history shed light on the modern debate about immigration%u2019s labor market impact in high wage economies? This …-called first global century. It then assesses the effects of immigration on wages and employment with and without international … immigration%u2019s impact in the two global centuries, and thus on policy …

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 … examines the relationship between migration and capital flows in the age of mass migration before 1914, the so-called first …