Biographical note: George J. Borjas, Harvard University, USA. …Immigration Economics synthesizes the theories, models, and econometric methods used to identify the causes and …, including migrant worker selection and assimilation, the impact of immigration on labor markets and worker wages, and the …

immigration may have played in enabling U.S. commuting zones to respond to manufacturing job loss caused by import competition … exposed to the China trade shock, the overall contribution of immigration to labor market adjustment in this episode was small … regions with high trade exposure was only three-fifths that in regions with low exposure. Immigration thus appears more likely …

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. …