[...]This paper documents the impact of recent changes inimmigration settlement patterns on the skill endowment ofimmigrants in the New York metropolitan area. The empiricalanalysis uses the available U.S. census microdata between 1970and 2000 to examine two related questions that inevitably lie...

"This book collects the main papers written by George Borjas on the economics of immigration during a decades-long career. Although there was little interest in immigration issues among economists before the 1980s, the literature has exploded since. The essays collected in this book represent...