Evidence suggests that the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (CUSTA) had almost no effect on earnings and had a small … negative effect on manufacturing employment. Theory suggests that a change in trade policy may affect skilled and less …

participation and creating worker shortages in high-demand industries. In this context, immigration will help reduce costs in key … inequality. Reforms should therefore modestly increase overall immigration over time, while shifting its composition somewhat …

This paper reviews the evidence on the effects of less-skilled immigration to the U.S., and their implications for … immigration reform. It begins with a review of the costs of less-skilled immigration, in terms of competition to native …-born American workers; and the benefits of such immigration in the form of lower consumer prices, higher employer profits, and …

lower rates of involvement in criminal activity than natives. The earliest studies of immigration and crime conducted at the …

Since 1986 the United States has made considerable efforts to curb illegal immigration. This has resulted in an …

United States immigration since the early 1970s. The model incorporates ratios of source country income, education, and … the stock of previous immigrants, and various controls for immigration quota policy. The model is estimated on a panel of … composition of U.S. immigration by source.This paper - a product of Investment Climate, Development Research Group - is part of a …

In a standard median voter model, low-income immigration increases the size of the welfare state. Other research …-income immigration. We contend that neither model accurately describes political reality after testing these theories with United States … due to factors unrelated to immigration, such as differences in institutions …

immigrant men following the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act have low initial earnings and high earnings growth. Another …

Although one would expect the unemployed to be the population most likely affected by immigration, most of the studies … have concentrated on investigating the effects immigration has on the employed population. Little is known of the effects … of immigration on labor market transitions out of unemployment. Using the basic monthly Current Population Survey from …