Etwa 52 Millionen Menschen verließen im 19. Jahrhundert Europa, 32 Million davon in Richtung USA. Dabei stellten …, die mithalfen, die noch junge und wachsende Volkswirtschaft der USA aufzubauen. Um 1890 änderte sich die Situation. Zum … weniger Personen für die Auswanderung entschieden. Obwohl die USA im 19. Jahrhundert keine gezielte Selektion der ins Land …

characteristics or immigration policy, but may reflect immigrants' resilience to economic shocks …

immigration in the United States (using IPUMS Data), which the related literature has clearly neglected thus far despite long …% less chance of being self-employed than one without. In addition, we show that factors such as longer stay in USA and being … higher education attainment are less likely to choose self-employment, the probability is relatively higher in comparison to …

We review the growing literature on the political effects of immigration. After a brief summary of the economics of … immigration, we turn to the main focus of the paper: how immigrants influence electoral outcomes in receiving countries, and why …. We start from the "standard" view that immigration triggers political backlash and raises support for nativist, anti …

immigration to the United States. We approach this study from two different dimensions to document some of the forces driving this … change in the sex-ratio. The first approach, focusing on changes between birth cohorts, demonstrates that immigration is …

We study the long run effects of immigration on U.S. political ideology. We establish a new result: historical European … immigration is associated with stronger preferences for redistribution and a more liberal ideology among Americans today. We …-group contact was more frequent, and are not due to transmission within ancestry groups. Immigration left its footprint on American …

This paper estimates the quarterly flow of migrants to the US working age population using data based on the Current … Population Survey (CPS). The dynamic responses to immigration shocks are estimated in a vector autoregression. Immigration shocks …, as well as technology shocks are identified through long-run restrictions. The responses to immigration shocks are …