Immigrants during two global centuries : rising quantity and falling quality -- A framework -- Looking at local labor markets -- Immigration shocks and labor market absorption : two modern examples -- Immigrants, wages, and inequality : the global centuries compared -- Policy and the demise of...

Tenants wanted: the promotion of immigration to the New World, 1607-1776 -- Antebellum immigration promotion by states, 1845-1860 -- Corporate immigration promotion and labor recruitment in the nineteenth century -- Selling the promised land: religious and philanthropic promotion -- Immigration...