We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …

operation of federal immigration law. This premise is flawed. On the better view, the sanctuary movement comports with, rather … than fights against, dominant new themes in federal immigration law. A key theme — emerging both in judicial doctrine and … measures necessary to inject normative (and sometimes legal) accuracy into real-world immigration enforcement decision …

new insights on potential drivers for the observed non-negative wage effects of immigration. We develop a model of a labor … supply reduces a firm's credibility. By this effect, a higher labor supply - for example caused by immigration - can increase …

This paper studies the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production. We present four key findings …. First, among Nobel Prize winners and Fields Medalists, migrants to the U.S. play a central role in the global knowledge …-histories of International Math Olympiad (IMO) medalists, we show that migrants to the U.S. are up to six times more productive …

This paper studies the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production. We present four key findings …. First, among Nobel Prize winners and Fields Medalists, migrants to the U.S. play a central role in the global knowledge …-histories of International Math Olympiad (IMO) medalists, we show that migrants to the U.S. are up to six times more productive …

Switzerland implemented an immigration quota system to manage the inflow of immigration between 1970 and 2002. This … potential endogeneity issue. The author finds that the immigration quota system slowed down the growth of foreign population in … Switzerland, but had no impact on unemployment. Moreover, such immigration restriction lowered the average skill level of the …

prohibited additional immigration and announced that their task would thereafter be to incorporate their immigrant …

We estimate the impact of the income earned in the host country on return migration of labor migrants from developing … to the Netherlands. The empirical results show that intensities of return migration are U-shaped with respect to migrants …