adulthood. By combining administrative data on school performance, high school graduation, crime, earnings, and cognitive and …

demand and technology, production expansion, and specialization of native workers as immigration rises. …

immigrants from different countries and arriving under different immigration policy regimes vary in their probability of over …-qualification. The results suggest that both country of origin (sending factor) and immigration policy (selecting factor) matter and that …

study the effect high skill immigration on productivity. Using a unique data set on manufacturing firms, I investigate …

In this paper I share my thoughts on immigration policy. As a social scientist it is appropriate to assess the … consequences, the costs and benefits, of alternative immigration policies. The policies that a country adopts regarding immigration … research. What follows is a non-technical discussion of what I see as some of the key issues regarding immigration policies …

, 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 …

With the ensuing immigration reform in the US, the paper shows that targeted skilled immigration into the R&D sector … have spillover benefits for the unskilled sector while immigration into the production sector will always reduce wage …' skill in R&D activities and intensity of inputs. Inclusive immigration policy requires inter-sectoral diffusion of ideas …

This paper studies the relationship between immigration and offshoring by examining whether an influx of foreign … that immigration and offshoring are substitutes has important policy implications, since restrictions on one may encourage …