than women to gain admission on the basis of immigration criteria related to labor market considerations rather than family … female immigration flows. Therefore, our findings of similar patterns for men and women and of the key role played by … national origin both suggest that factors other than immigration policy per se are important contributors to the observed skill …

excluding Latin American immigrants, the observable skills of immigrants are similar in the three countries. These patterns …

excluding Latin American immigrants, the observable skills of immigrants are similar in the three countries. These patterns …

excluding Latin American immigrants, the observable skills of immigrants are similar in the three countries. These patterns …

excluding Latin American immigrants, the observable skills of immigrants are similar in the three countries. These patterns …

members of U.S. citizens and residents, or adopt a more skills-based system, replacing family visas with employment … accompanied by new restrictions on family-based immigration. Moreover, it is misleading to think that only employment …

We examine a little-known restriction on high-skill immigration to the United States, the Exchange Visitor Skills List … prevent draining developing nations of needed skills, today the Skills List in practice is outdated and misdirected. It is … Skills List. Despite the stated purpose of the List, these restrictions fall more heavily on relatively advanced economies …

/training and communication skills. Counterfactual estimates of the wage impacts of immigration are skewed: the largest gain from … preventing immigration is 3.2% higher wages, but the largest loss is 0.3% lower wages. Crowding of immigrants into select …