This book analyzes US immigration policies. The US was open to immigrants from all over the world without restriction for the first 100 years of its national existence; first in 1924, and then again in 1965, immigration policies restricted the number of immigrants allowed to enter. The first group...

In the 1980s the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the misfortunes of unskilled workers in the U.S. OLS estimates using...

Ecuador experienced an unprecedented wave of international migration since the late 1990s, triggered by a severe economic and financial crisis. This paper gathers individual-level data from Ecuador and the two main destinations of Ecuadorian migrants: the US and Spain. First, we provide a...