Since 1986 the United States has made considerable efforts to curb illegal immigration. This has resulted in an … predictions. -- Immigration ; gender ; selection ; border enforcement …

progress. Exploiting national immigration policy changes together with historical settlement patterns of immigrants' across US … counties, I estimate the effect of skilled immigration on local patenting rates. I find that counties that received more … most of the effect is due to skilled immigration from Non-English Speaking Countries and from Countries with long patenting …

This paper re-examines the role of labor-market competition as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration. We claim … are relatively more pro-immigration. This is true for both our new measures of exposure. Second, we show that the … positive effect of education on pro-immigration attitudes is greatly reduced when we control for the degree of communication …

is likely to over-emphasize technology-based adjustments. -- immigration ; endogenous technological change ; firm …

found that immigration has little impact on the wages of competing native-born workers at the local level. It might be that … with immigration. A modified two-sector model demonstrates this theoretical possibility. Second, the results raise doubts …

anticipates that rich natives oppose low skilled immigration more than poor natives, and that this gap is larger in states with … equally opposed to low skilled immigration, and rich natives are actually less opposed to low skilled immigration in states … with more fiscal exposure than they are elsewhere. We do find that poor natives are more opposed to low skilled immigration …