Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian immigrants have higher levels of English fluency, education, and income (relative to natives) than do U.S. immigrants. This skill deficit for U.S. immigrants arises primarily because the United States receives a much larger share of...

The belief that immigrants generate beneficial externalities in their host countries, specifically in the form of an increased opportunity and ability of firms to expand their foreign trade, has recently been challenged by George Borjas in Heaven's Door (1999, p. 97) as having no empirical...

Using unique Current Population Survey data from November 1979 and 1989, this paper compares the wage structure across generations of Mexican-origin men. I find that the sizable earnings advantage U.S.-born Mexican Americans enjoy over Mexican immigrants arises not just from intergenerational...

Die Entstehung dieses Arbeitspapiers ist angestoßen worden durch die Veröffentlichung des Beitrags "Hire and Fire. Ist der amerikanische Arbeitsmarkt ein Vorbild für Deutschland?" von Wolfgang Streeck. Hierin unternimmt Streeck den Versuch einer Generalabrechnung mit der deutschen...