"This volume collects the lectures of distinguished immigration scholars delivered at Western Michigan University (WMU) during the 2016-2017 academic year, with cosponsorship from the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research."

Time series on U.S. international macroeconomic variables from the prewar period are compared to postwar data to explore whether the uncertainty experienced by economic agents differs over the two historical time periods. Conditional time series measures of uncertainty reveal that shocks to the...