An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … Population Survey extracts in 1980, specific to Miami but unrelated to the Boatlift. We also show that conflicting findings on … reinforces the existing consensus that the impact of immigration on average native-born workers is small, and fails to …

positive outside it. Job-specific estimates of this kind are useful alongside more generalized evaluations of immigration … because immigration policy often regulates access to specific occupations. …

Immigration policy can have important net fiscal effects that vary by immigrants' skill level. But mainstream methods …