Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely … legalization programs mandated by the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 led to a stronger propensity to settle permanently …

around the world. The U.S. government responded to the events in China by enacting multiple measures to protect Chinese …. Relative to immigrants from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea - countries not covered by the post-Tiananmen immigration policy … measures - highly-educated immigrants from mainland China experienced significant employment and earnings gains during the 1990 …

of immigrants. We use longitudinal data on immigration to Sweden 1970-1990 to examine the extent and pattern of immigrant … after arrival; within five years, more than a quarter of the people studied emigrated. As expected, economic migrants are …

Italy is a country with a long history of emigration and a very short experience of immigration. The paper first … remaining population. The second section surveys the recent Italian immigration phenomenon with a description of the immigrant …

immigration studies have overemphasized the role played by differences in the distributions of countries' wages and skills …