The most important economic feature of immigration to the United States in the post- 1965 period has been a significant … and information valuable in the American labour market. This paper examines the determinants of economic assimilation, and … discusses how the experience of earlier immigrant waves can provide valuable information about the assimilation process the new …

, mechanically changing the average native wage in affected markets and biasing the estimated wage impact of immigration. We document … wage of French women, but led to a sizable decline in their employment rate. In contrast, immigration had little impact on … immigration and female wages arises partly because the native women who left the labor force had relatively low wages. Adjusting …

The theory of factor demand has important implications for the study of the impact of immigration on wages. This paper … theory can be used to check the plausibility of the many contradictory claims that appear throughout the immigration …